Re: [Content] - Compatibility Tables everywhere?

I took a rough first stab at documenting it on that page.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:

>  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:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>
>  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
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03.11.2012 08:04pm, Alex Komoroske wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Janet Swisher <jswisher@mozilla.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  This would be really helpful for translation, so that the table is
>>> maintained only once.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  Janet Swisher <jREMOVEswisher@mozilla.com>
>>> Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org>
>>> Technical Writer/Community Steward
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>