MDN/Archives/Projects/Development/CompatibilityTables/Useful ressources

Useful resources

• Discussion on the WPF ML about using MDN compatibility data
  • http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2014Jan/0017.html
• Proposal by Daniel Buchner to automated gathering compatibility data
  • See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.mdn.drivers/qS7InnkaNYY
  • and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=946413
• Draft for a data schema by Sheppy, Jean-Yves and Jeremie
  • MDN Compat schema
• Draft for a standard data schema by the webplatfrom.org project
  • http://webplatform.github.io/browser-compat-model/
• Mockup of a browser support info ribbon that could go at the top of MDN pages, by Chris Mills
  • http://people.mozilla.org/~cmills/browser-compat-ribbon/

Possible third party resources

Similar projects

Could be used as data-source but serves a purpose similar to BrowserCompat.

Can I Use...

• The most popular
• Closest to providing browser compatibility tables supported in User-Agents.
• Edited manually by contributors through GitHub
• Uses GitHub repository, reading from flat JSON files

Web Browser Compatibility .com

• Provides data and statics only using test runs results from visitors own web browser
• New in town, by Cody Lindley
• Maintenance process unknown yet

Data source

• http://www.browserscope.org
• Google Analytics stats (this need further investigation)
• http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
• http://status.modern.ie/ & http://status.modern.ie/features (JSON Feed)
  • raw JSON file hosted on GitHub
• Google Chrome Status

tests suite

• Modernizr
• HTML5 Test
• HTML5 Please (backstory
• Web Platform Test
  • A test-based report example
• Opera test suite (this is raw material, but quite interesting)