FxSiteCompat

The Firefox Site Compatibility (FxSiteCompat) project tackles the backward compatibility and regressions of the Firefox Web browser, both on desktop and mobile. This is a kind of Developer Engagement efforts but not lead by the official Engagement team so far.

Areas

Backward Compatibility

Objectives

• Avoid Web site breakages due to backward compatibility changes in Firefox

Activities

• Tell Web developers about changes that may affect backward compatibility for Web sites
  • Write documents on MDN
  • Announce the latest releases with the compatibility doc via Twitter @MozWebCompat (consolidated @FxSiteCompat)

Regressions

Objectives

• Avoid Web site breakages due to regressions in Firefox

Activities

(No specific actions taken yet)

• Find regressions and get them fixed as soon as possible
  • Build a robust Aurora community of Web developers and encourage them to test their sites with one of the latest Aurora builds
  • Observe new bug reports on Bugzilla

Notes

How to write a Firefox Site Compatibility doc

(Added later)

Members

• Kohei Yoshino