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[.jeff]

lach,

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> From: Lachlan Cannon
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> How about links to supporting documentation. Things
> like compliance of certain browsers. So someone could
> go to download Netscape 4.5 for example, and have a
> link to a spec which details CSS compliance in NS4.5,
> and a different link to a JS article for NS4.5.
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lots of work to put together all the specs about each of the browsers and
every new one, but certainly doable if someone wanted to take on the task.

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> you could even do a related evolt.org article's check.
> "Search for other articles on Netscape 4.5 on
> evolt.org." or some such thing.
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absolutely.  that's one of the tie-ins to the main site i'd like to do.

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> How about being able to search for browsers by basic
> support level, for example searching for all browsers
> that support HTML4.01 and XHTML1.0?
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sure, seems reasonable.  it'd be as simple as a basic list of things to
support, checking each of the browsers for proper support, and then creating
an association between the browser record and each of the items it supports.

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> (nothing indepth, just a quick evaluation, such as on
> the features lists browsers come with "IE5.5 now
> supports HTML4.01, XHTML1.0, XML1.0, CSS1.0 and most of
> CSS2.0" for example... just tick them off as supported.)
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sounds reasonable, but something that could easily be done later on after
the core piece is developed.

.jeff

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