Hi, Janet! The MDN compatibility tables are built with macros/templates, so unless the > page is very neglected (and therefore not updated to use the standard > macros), the table should have an identical structure. > Great! > Some tables do have multiple rows, if the features were added over time. > My worst-case example of a hairy compatibility table is > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input#Browser_compatibility > Nice -- that'll be an excellent test case! > > Or, we could operate on the original pages. I'm a bit hesitant to run a >> crawler without permission plus a look at MDN's robots.txt, so if you've >> already got the complete set of tables, that may be better.... >> > I think there was discussion of doing this at time of day that has the > least traffic on MDN. I can talk to Mozilla's IT folks to a) give them a > heads-up and b) find out the best time to do it. > Let's see if Doug has already got the results of a crawl. ;-) Unless...how often are those tables updated, do you know? Depending on when the tables were extracted (which may have been last May), maybe we should get a fresh set. -- Pat
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