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= Web Compatibility =
= Web Compatibility =


'''A person should be able to use the Web with any devices and browsers.'''
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A person should be able to use the Web with any devices and browsers.
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Our attempt is to help both website developers and browser implementers to reach a point where users have no issues when browsing the Web because of their choices.
Our attempt is to help both website developers and browser implementers to reach a point where users have no issues when browsing the Web because of their choices.


== Contact Us ==
=== Cross Browsers. Any vendors ===
* [https://webcompat.com/ Web Compatibility bug reporting] (Cross Browsers. Any vendors)
* [https://twitter.com/WebCompat @WebCompat] on twitter
* [https://twitter.com/MozWebCompat @MozWebCompat] for Mozilla Web compatibility issues


== Our activity ==
== Our activity ==
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* Our [[Compatibility/Projects|current projects]].
* Our [[Compatibility/Projects|current projects]].
== What is Web Compatibility ==
Web Compatibility issues are related to Web sites implementing techniques that create issues for a certain class of browsers and/or devices. A person will not be able to use a Web site according to his/her own choices.


=== Mozilla Staff ===
These issues are cross-platforms, cross-products and related to the Web as a whole. There are circumstances when a company will choose to use a standardized techniques which is not available for an old browser, but that should be mitigated in making the [http://christianheilmann.com/2012/02/16/stumbling-on-the-escalator/ Web site usable in any circumstances]. So if a person is using the last version of [[Firefox]] or a vocal browser such as Jaws, or a proxy browser such as Opera Mini or UCWeb, the Web site should be able to work.


The web compatibility team is composed of:
[[Mozilla]] has two areas for dealing with Web Compatibility issues. The goal is to make the Web usable by anyone and not only Firefox products, but we will focus the efforts on solving issues for Firefox users.


* Oana Arbuzov - oana (IRC) - compat triage and testing team
Web Compatibility issues can change over time, we keep an updated list of the most [[Compatibility/CommonIssues|common issues]].
* Sergiu Logigan - sergiu (IRC) - compat triage and testing team
* [[User:Adam_s|Adam Stevenson]] - adam_s (IRC), compat team
* [[User:DenSchub|Dennis Schubert]] - denschub (IRC), compat team
* [[User:Karlcow|Karl Dubost]] - karlcow (IRC), compat team
* [[User:Miketaylr|Mike Taylor]] miketaylr (IRC), compat team manager
* Thomas Wisniewski - twisniewski (IRC), compat team
 
== Meetings ==


=== Weekly Meeting ===
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== Mozilla Staff ==


The team has a public meeting every Tuesday at 6am PST*.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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! Day of week !! Pacific Time !! Eastern Time !! UTC !! Central European Time !! Japan Time
! Name !! IRC !! GitHub !! Role
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| Ciprian Ciocan || ciprian|| cipriansv || Triage/Testing
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| [[User:Adam_s|Adam Stevenson]] || adam_s||adam_openweb || Project Manager
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| [[User:DenSchub|Dennis Schubert]] || denschub || denschub || Diagnosis
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| [[User:Karlcow|Karl Dubost]] || karlcow || karlcow || Diagnosis
|-
| [[User:Ksenia|Ksenia Berezina]] || ksenia || ksy36 || Diagnosis
|-
| [[User:Miketaylr|Mike Taylor]] || miketaylr || miketaylr || Team Manager
|-
| Oana Arbuzov || oana || softvision-oana-arbuzov  || Triage/Testing
|-
|-
| Tuesdays || 6:00AM - 7:00AM || 9:00AM - 10:00AM || 2:00PM - 3:00PM || 3:00PM - 4:00PM || 10:00PM - 11:00PM (summer)<br/>11:00PM - 12:00PM (winter)
| Sergiu Logigan || sergiu || softvision-sergiulogigan || Triage/Testing
|-
|-
| Thomas Wisniewski || twisniewski || wisniewskit ||Diagnosis
|}
|}
== Meetings ==


* If there are no agenda items on the [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/webcompat public etherpad], there is no meeting.
We hold Weekly [[Compatibility/Meetings|meetings]] every Tuesday at 6am PST (if we have something to discuss).
* See our [[Compatibility/Meetings]] for more details and [[Compatibility/Meetings|minutes]].
== Contact Us ==
 
* [https://webcompat.com/issues/new Report a Bug] (Cross Browsers. Any vendors)
=== Tech Evangelism Triage ===
* [https://twitter.com/WebCompat @WebCompat]
 
* [https://twitter.com/MozWebCompat @MozWebCompat] for Mozilla Web compatibility issues
All are welcome to participate.
 
The current goal is to triage the backlog and make sure we haven't missed important bugs to be diagnosed, or to catch what has been fixed. Anything deemed not important will be made P5, and won't appear in query results.
 
* Thursdays, 8am Pacific, Vidyo Channel Compatibility
* [https://mzl.la/2H9Qzc6 Untriaged Tech Evangelism::Desktop and ::Mobile with no priority (minus P5s)]
 
== What is Web Compatibility ==
Web Compatibility issues are related to Web sites implementing techniques that create issues for a certain class of browsers and/or devices. A person will not be able to use a Web site according to his/her own choices.
 
These issues are cross-platforms, cross-products and related to the Web as a whole. There are circumstances when a company will choose to use a standardized techniques which is not available for an old browser, but that should be mitigated in making the [http://christianheilmann.com/2012/02/16/stumbling-on-the-escalator/ Web site usable in any circumstances]. So if a person is using the last version of [[Firefox]] or a vocal browser such as Jaws, or a proxy browser such as Opera Mini or UCWeb, the Web site should be able to work.


[[Mozilla]] has two areas for dealing with Web Compatibility issues. The goal is to make the Web usable by anyone and not only Firefox products, but we will focus the efforts on solving issues for Firefox users.
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Web Compatibility issues can change over time, we keep an updated list of the most [[Compatibility/CommonIssues|common issues]].


=== Web Compatibility Taxonomy ===
=== Web Compatibility Taxonomy ===
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== Web Compatibility Summit ==
== Web Compatibility Summit ==
[[ WebCompat Summit (2015)]]
[[ WebCompat Summit (2015)]]
[[Category:Web Compatibility]]
[[Category:Web Compatibility]]
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