Browser-compat-data: MDN states "Full support" for sub-feature, even if some sub-sub-features are not supported

Created on 23 Jul 2018  Â·  4Comments  Â·  Source: mdn/browser-compat-data

Example:

Firefox seemingly has Full support for sub-feature background of manifest.json.

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But sub-sub-feature persistent of manifest.json/background is not supported by Firefox:

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Expectation:

  • The compat table should distinguish between full support (i.e. has basic support and support for all – standard-track?! – sub-features) and partial support (e.g. orange background-color for this?).
  • Additionally, a thin progress bar could visualize the proportion of supported/not-supported sub-features.
  • Also, if different sub-features were added in different versions, the "Full support" cell shouldn't simply show the version_added of the "Basic support", but rather the range of versions or the max of versions.
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All 4 comments

To be honest, I'm not sure this is the right place for this bug report, since it's mostly about how MDN chooses to summarize the data, rather than the data itself.

@wbamberg do you know if there's a better place for this bug (maybe filed against MDN directly)? I wasn't sure and I thought you might know

You're probably right, sorry about that, and I suppose https://github.com/mdn/kumascript is the right place.

Evidence is here: https://github.com/mdn/kumascript/search?q=%22Full+support%22&unscoped_q=%22Full+support%22

It might be a good idea to also do it for mdn/browser‑compat‑toolkit (see also #2354).

See also https://github.com/mdn/kumascript/pull/559, which may or may not be relevant.

In https://github.com/mdn/kumascript/pull/559 we decided against computing partial support, and so far this was the only report requesting it to be re-implemented somehow. I don't think we will do that for now. If this becomes problematic for more things, please do file again.

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