Re: [Content] - Compatibility Tables everywhere?

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:

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> Awesome, thanks Alex.  I think we need to say what the centralized place
> to pull tables from is, say for HTML Elements it is their appropriate
> element page.  That way there is one central place to do updates which will
> then be referred to on the rest of the pages.  That way we don't have a web
> of reference tables being made.
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Agreed that this is very important. The best practice is that the "real"
compatibility table is included on the most-specific reference page that
relates to this method/property/API. It should then be imported from there
to any other page that wants to show it.

Where do you think we should document this?

> -Garbee
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> On 03.11.2012 08:04pm, Alex Komoroske wrote:
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> I just implemented this at the hackathon.
> It is now possible to add "Imported compatibility tables" to pages. You
> just specify the page you want to lift the compatibility table from, and a
> reference to it is automatically included in the page. You can choose to
> import multiple compatibility tables.
> *This is now the preferred way of handling compatibility on
> tutorial/guide/concept/etc articles*. The canonical compatibility
> information should exist on the specific reference articles, and then be
> included via this mechanism into related tutorial pages.
> The usability around this in the form is TERRIBLE right now; it's very
> unclear what the difference is between imported and non-imported compat
> tables, and when you should use either.  If anyone has any ideas on how the
> editing experience should be I can implement it in the form definition[1].
> --Alex
> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Template:Compatibility_Form_Section
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Janet Swisher <jswisher@mozilla.com>wrote:
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>>  This would be really helpful for translation, so that the table is
>> maintained only once.
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>> On 10/19/12 4:52 PM, Alex Komoroske wrote:
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>> In an ideal world I think we'd have some way of grabbing a compatibility
>> table from one article and transcluding it in another. That would allow us
>> to have the canonical data on the specific reference page for each feature
>> and then just dynamically include it on other articles where it's relevant
>> (like on articles). This should theoretically be possible with semantic
>> media wiki queries and properties.
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>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:
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>>>  Do we want the compatibility tables [1] to be anywhere or do we want
>>> them to be centralized in an area (such as the elements page)?
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>>> I think we should centralize them in order to create less maintenance
>>> later on.  If we have tables in any page for elements listed then it isn't
>>> going to be easy later on to update them if needed and could cause
>>> confusion on where to get the information.  I am thinking we should
>>> centralize them under the element itself [2] to solve these possible
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> [1] example table:
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/guides/html_text#Compatibility
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>>> [2] example element: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/elements/em
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>>> Thoughts?
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>>> -Garbee
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>>  --
>>  Janet Swisher <jREMOVEswisher@mozilla.com>
>> Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org>
>> Technical Writer/Community Steward
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