Show Browser Release Date / Add age-aligned mode

[fyrd]

Show Browser Release Date / Add age-aligned mode

[Fyrd]

Browser release dates are now included in the tooltip when you hover/tap on a version.

Have started working on the UI for a "release date relative mode".

[Fyrd]

New UI is now available! See http://caniuse.com/feed/157 for details.

[NKjoep]

@saschanaz you said "Normally the version numbers are enough for us"

I'm a web developer too, however with short release ciclyes the browser have It's difficult to remember exactly when they went public :)

The timeline and a sorting criteria would be a pretty cool ninja new feature

[manngo]

+1

Agreed. Browser such as Firefox and Chrome have very short release cycles while Safari and IE/Edge have much longer cycles. As such, whether a feature was supported, say, two versions ago, has a different meaning for these browsers.

So for example, a feature which was implemented in versions, say, 1 year ago, would be be safer to use than features implemented 2 versions ago.

[peterdd]

How about some horizontal year lines in the date relative view?

[saschanaz]

I would like it with somewhat different reason. Currently IE8 is in the same row with Firefox 19, and that makes me think that they are contemporary browsers, which is absolutely not true.

[NKjoep]

I agree. For the same reason I opened the issue.

I'd like to partecipate on implementing it.

Tell me if I can do something to help.

Andrea

[Danilela]

+1 for this!

[ahew]

+1

[krdesign]

+1

[Fyrd]

Actually I already have this data internally (though just for desktop browsers), so it would be easy to include in the exported JSONs too. However, I'd like to hear how people would like to see it used on the site. Currently the displayed versions are all based on how much they're being used (based on StatCounter or Google Analytics data), which would seem to be the most useful. What additional value is there in knowing when a version was released?

[NKjoep]

Well, knowing how old is a browser will help you making decisions on which browsers use.
4% of share of a browser released 10 months ago is different from 4% share of a browser born 2 or 3 years ago.

So if would be possibile with a simple tooltip to know the date, I'm sure it would help many people :)

IMHO, I don't feel confident just knowing that 2 or 5 versions back support the viewed item, I'd like to know also from how much time ago the browser started to support it.

[Fyrd]

I kind of see your point, there is indeed a difference between low usage due to newness or oldness. However I'd think it would be pretty easy to tell which is which just from comparing version numbers.

So I think I'll add the date to the tooltips, sure, though it still to me seems more of an "interesting to know" rather than "useful to know" thing.

[NKjoep]

Thank you Fyrd, it's very appreciated

[saschanaz]

If the page show the data with release date, then we can more easily know some additional information.

It would need some complex works, but I would like to see this: image
(Sorry, I failed to draw Firefox 4~21 to be separated because I drew this by hand. This image is based on Audio element data)

Now it shows when the browsers started to support the features "earlier" or "later".
Optionally it even shows which browser is updated more faster :)

Normally the version numbers are enough for us, but I think 'showing them when a user click a button' will good for users who want to know the timeline of the web browsers. When applying them to Calculation of support for currently selected criteria of caniuse, it will show more important data so that I can say like "IE added web APIs most slowly among others" citing the data.

[redeye86]

+1

[AdamMerrifield]

+1
I would really like to see the release date for each browser version easily.

[peterdd]

@NKjoep: Could you please edit your first comment to engage peoples to vote for #202?

Vertical aligned for the current main web browsers for instance..

Versionitis is a serious disease of todays web browser manufacturers.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg

http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/

[NKjoep]

@peterdd I edited the first comment, I agree on versionitis being a serious illness nowadays.