Re: WebPlatform Browser Support Info

Hi Tobie,

This is great!

I do have some issues I would like to see incorporated or changed, but overall I think this should work very well.

On a quick glance I noticed the following things:

1)	It might be nice to be able to store other headers with the UA string for test. This would allow a more accurate identification in the future
2)	For browser identification of features I’d like to add a type, so it is possible to quickly see if the result is for mobile, tablet, desktop or other types of devices.
3)	For browser identification of features I’d also like to be able to make os and device optional. 

I’ll have some more time to look at it tomorrow.

Cheers,

Niels
html5test.com


On 24 Oct 2013, at 00:14, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Pushed the first (unfinished) draft of a "counter" proposal[1]. I did this for two reasons:
> 
> 1) it's a lot harder to come up with a coherent proposal than to open 25 issues against someone else's,
> 2) I was under the impressions that I wasn't able to convey the overall organization I had in mind either through the mailing list or through the bug tracker.
> 
> The goal of this proposal isn't to replace Ronald's but to understand better the different perspectives so we can move towards consensus.
> 
> Right now it focuses mainly on:
> 
> - defining the UA part,
> - establishing a distinction between raw data (Test results) and interpreted data (Feature Support),
> - removing the url proxying.
> 
> In retrospect, I think that the main issues I have with Ronald's proposal have to do with the excessive (and unnecessary) use of identifiers and the use of test related terminology to describe what is essentially feature support info.
> 
> It is probable that I will end up with a two leveled proposal:
> 
> 1. UA string - test case - spec - test result (raw data)
> 2. UA object - Feature Support - Feature (interpreted data)
> 
> Where moving from one level to the other requires either code transformation (UA parsing) or interpretation.
> 
> Comments welcomed.
> 
> --tobie
> ---
> [1]: http://tobie.github.io/webplatform-browser-compat
>

Received on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 22:58:29 UTC