Pete Whelpton created NETBEANS-2533:
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Summary: Update CSS browser compatibility help - include version
number
Key: NETBEANS-2533
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2533
Project: NetBeans
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: web - CSS Editor
Reporter: Pete Whelpton
PropertyCompatibilityHelpResolver.java parse the .properties files in:
netbeans/ide/css.editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/css/editor/module/main/browsers/
and then sets the appropriate browser icon (Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc.) as
active (colourful) or inactive (greyscale) in the Code Completion help
depending on whether or not the CSS property is found in each browsers
.property file.
The problems are:
1) These .properties files haven't been updated for a very long time, so
several properties show as not supported by browsers which have now supported
them for ages.
2) Unlike the old days, browsers are pretty quick to implement support, so a
straight forward supported/not-supported is not so useful now. It would be
more useful to show which version of a browser support for a CSS feature was
implemented
3) These .properties files are also used to create browser specific version of
CSS properties e.g. -moz or -webkit properties. As these files have not been
updated for a long time, Netbeans will not create a lot of browser specific
properties that are not available
My proposal is:
1) The properties files need updating with the latest support for each browser
2) Edge needs adding in - this should be a simple case of a new EdgeModule
class, icons, properties file
3) The supported version number for each CSS property should be part of the
.properties file. The BrowserSpecificDefinitionParser class would need
updating to parse the properties file for these version numbers
4) PropertyCompatibilityHelpResolver.java would need updating to create an
extra row of HTML in the table containing the browser icons, with the supported
version number for the property in
The main thing holding me back is finding a good, reliable source of CSS
browser compatibility that is compatible with the Apache licence / not going to
cause copyright problems. That seems to rule out MDN etc. and also the web
pages for each browser that Netbeans original compatibility information was
taken from no longer exist...
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