Getting Pale Moon added to the shared "browser-compat-data" (BCD) database

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Getting Pale Moon added to the shared "browser-compat-data" (BCD) database

Unread post by jb_wisemo » 2022-04-26, 13:06

[Advocacy]
(This was originally intended as a followup to my old thread about getting Pale Moon included on other browser compatibility lists, but that thread is now locked for unknown and unstated reason, perhaps due to elapsed time).

Many online sites and some web development tools look to the online repository "browser-compat-data" (BCD) to advice web site designers if a feature is now supported by all important web browsers, and details of that answer. This includes w3schools.com, caniuse.com, and the Mozilla Developer documentation (MDN). BCD was apparently forked from the core content of Mozilla Developer Documentation a few years ago, but is still hosted in the Mozilla Github repository.

:arrow: The BCD database has a formal process for adding a browser and its version history, detailed here: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/docs/data-guidelines.md#user-content-addition-of-browsers

:idea: It would be nice if someone deeply familiar with the Goanna code would start the process by preparing data in the BCD JSON format, working to provide the last 2 of the 4 items on their list, and volunteering to become the BCD "vendor" contact / "peer" for Goanna/PM as described under https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#user-content-additional-paths-to-becoming-a-peer-or-owner .

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