Bug 817 – Warn about features that are not widely implemented yet

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Bug 817 - Warn about features that are not widely implemented yet


Summary:	Warn about features that are not widely implemented yet

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

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Reported:	2011-02-07 01:26 CET by Simon Pieters
Modified:	2011-05-25 14:47 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Simon Pieters 2011-02-07 01:26:04 CET

Sometimes people try to use some new feature and turn to the validator when it doesn't work in browsers. It would be helpful if the validator warned about features that are not widely implemented yet. Maybe you can outsource the task of knowing if something is widely implemented to caniuse.com. (I don't know if caniuse.com has a clean API for asking if a certain element, but maybe you could coordinate with @Fyrd.)

Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-02-07 01:29:39 CET

Alternatively rely on the status annotations in the spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/status.cgi?action=get-all-annotations

Comment 2 Henri Sivonen 2011-05-25 14:47:36 CEST

https://bitbucket.org/validator/syntax/changeset/a7dee3eae4f0
https://bitbucket.org/validator/validator/changeset/1bb39f371fc4

See the first one of the changesets above to find out what's warned about. Please let me know if more warnings are needed.