Re: WebPlatform Browser Support phased approach?

Hi, Ronald! Good news!

How do both methods deal with dropped prefixes?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Mansveld <ronald@ronaldmansveld.nl>
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 8:29 AM
To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Cc: julee <julee@adobe.com>, Alex Komoroske <komoroske@google.com>, Niels
Leenheer <info@html5test.com>, "public-webplatform-tests@w3.org"
<public-webplatform-tests@w3.org>
Subject: Re: WebPlatform Browser Support phased approach?

>OK, I've come a long way so far. There is just one decision to be made:
>
>MDN provides the compat data not per version, but rather a
>since-version.
>
>Both caniuse and html5test provide the data per version (where
>available).
>
>
>What do we want to use? I can collapse the data from caniuse and
>html5test to a since version pretty easily. Expanding the data from MDN
>from a since-version up to a complete version-range might be doable as
>well, although I have to rely on the browser-data provided in the feeds
>from CIU and H5T to determine what versions are available.
>
>Anyone with arguments towards or against either option?
>
>
>
>Ronald
>
>
>Doug Schepers schreef op 2013-10-29 06:18:
>> Hi, Ronald­
>> 
>> Since we're going with this phased approach (which I fully support),
>> I think we should do 2 things:
>> 
>> 1) Use the MDN data as the baseline, since they have fairly complete
>> data and a similar feature level as WPD (e.g., they have basically the
>> same page names as we do); this means you'll have to collect this data
>> via MDN's API;
>> 
>> 2) Supplement that baseline data with CanIUse and HTML5Test data
>> where there is an equivalent feature name (e.g. "border-radius");
>> we'll have to wait for QuirksMode and MobileHTML5 data until we have
>> the source for that, but we will launch an "explainer" page that tells
>> about all our data sources and our timeline.
>> 
>> Does this seem like a doable approach?
>> 
>> Regards-
>> -Doug
>> 
>> On 10/23/13 9:24 PM, Julee wrote:
>>> Thanks much, Ronald! And everyone who is sharing their data as is!
>>> 
>>> I've sent feelers out regarding a work space in London next week.
>>> Will let
>>> you know if I hear anything.
>>> 
>>> In the meantime, do you have a sense of how long it might take to
>>> normalize this phase-1 data? No biggie, just looking to fill out the
>>> CSS-properties schedule.
>>> 
>>> Regards!
>>> 
>>> Julee
>>> ----------------------------
>>> julee@adobe.com
>>> @adobejulee
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ronald Mansveld <ronald@ronaldmansveld.nl>
>>> Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:47 PM
>>> To: Alex Komoroske <komoroske@google.com>
>>> Cc: Niels Leenheer <info@html5test.com>, julee <julee@adobe.com>,
>>> "public-webplatform-tests@w3.org" <public-webplatform-tests@w3.org>
>>> Subject: Re: WebPlatform Browser Support phased approach?
>>> 
>>>> Alex Komoroske schreef op 2013-10-22 17:48:
>>>>> I strongly support a phased approach. I'm very excited about the
>>>>> prospect of having a more robust system set up, but as far as the
>>>>> CSS
>>>>> Properties launch goes, it's more important to have _something_,
>>>>> even
>>>>> if it's just a one-time import from a couple of sources.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I feel like there is support to do a phased approach, plus we have
>>>> access to a (basic) set of data to get started. Coupled with the
>>>> urgency
>>>> to get CSS live (which I absolutely support, we've been in alpha
>>>> long
>>>> enough now ;) ), I think this is indeed the right path to follow.
>>>> Plus,
>>>> this buys us time to come up with a good plan and schemata for the
>>>> data-exchange we want to use in the future.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Next week I'll be in London, if anyone knows a place to work for me
>>>> I
>>>> can start building the first scripts to parse the data. I've checked
>>>> out
>>>> the Mozilla Open Office, but to me it's pretty unclear whether that
>>>> is
>>>> still in use, and if so: if and how I can use it. Do we have any
>>>> Mozilla-employees on the list? Or do we have Googlers that know if
>>>> perhaps the Google office can be used? Or any Londoners that know of
>>>> a
>>>> place?
>>>> 
>>>> Worst case scenario I think I can use the City Business Library, but
>>>> my
>>>> experience is that libraries are not always the best place to work
>>>> from,
>>>> especially not if you try to make full office hours.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ronald
>>> 
>>> 
>>>

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