Re: [Content] - Compatibility Tables everywhere?

We should document in the Editor's Guide [1].  It is currently 
super-early and very bare in info (most actually imported from the 
Getting Started Guide.)  I saw you were working on some more editors 
docs, which I would love to talk about getting rolled into this guide.  
In a day or two I'm opening a bug report on the guide with a list of 
things I think we should have in it and how I'm thinking we should 
structure it. For now though, just dropping a new section in is fine to 
get it down.

-Garbee

[1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Editors_Guide

On 11/5/2012 12:41 PM, Alex Komoroske wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, <jonathan@garbee.me 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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:
>>>         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.
>>>
>>>         On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, <jonathan@garbee.me
>>>         <mailto: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)?
>>>
>>>             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
>>>
>>>
>>>             [2] example element:
>>>             http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/elements/em
>>>
>>>             Thoughts?
>>>
>>>             -Garbee
>>>
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>>
>>         -- 
>>         Janet Swisher <mailto:jREMOVEswisher@mozilla.com>
>>         Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org>
>>         Technical Writer/Community Steward
>>
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