Re: WebPlatform Browser Support phased approach?

Julee schreef op 2013-10-21 23:18:
> Hi, folks:
> 
> As you probably know, the CSS properties project is in its last
> stages. This means we've edited and added samples & other good stuff
> to these pages. And when your WebPlatform Browser Support project is
> functioning, we'll display that compatibility information in these
> properties pages. Without that information, the pages really aren't
> ready for primetime. So, the CSS properties project has a dependency
> on your project.
> 
> At last Friday's general meeting, we discussed the possibility of
> going out with "good-enough" data. The idea is: if you divide your
> WebPlatform Browser Support project into phases, or sprints, you might
> be able to do an early cut of the data from maybe just 1 or 2 sources.
> If you could do that, then we could take that drop and format it for
> inclusion into the css properties pages compatibility subsection. This
> would be a 1-time manual or scripted edit inserting the "pretty-good"
> data, which would then act as a placeholder until your project was
> more mature.
> 
> I have to give the larger community a sense of the CSS properties
> project timeline, which I can't do until we figure out when we might
> have compatibility information. So, while Doug can probably explain
> more, I wanted to throw this out to you now for some thinking on a
> phased approach.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Julee
> 
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AFAIC this should be doable. Data from caniuse is already available as 
json, and html5test either has such a file already available, or can be 
easily created (right, Niels?). I guess the same goes for mobilehtml5.
That would mean we have two or three datasources.
Since it's only a one time import, I don't think we should bother 
ourselves with models etc. for that one-off import, and just use 
whatever format the data is available in. We can just re-arrange and 
normalize it on our side. That way we can have data fairly quick 
available, it just will be static till we create the real importer.


Ronald

Received on Monday, 21 October 2013 21:55:00 UTC