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Site design: refactor compatibility statement
- Mark Dillo as an abandoned browser - Mention litehtml, Ultralight - Move Goanna and Ultralight to own section - Move Tor Browser to own section - Add more details on current levels of (in)compatibility and the standards I hold myself to.
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- I ensure that the page works on extremely narrow viewports without triggering two-dimensional scaling. It should work at widths well below 200 CSS pixels.
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### Assessment and evaluation
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I test each WCAG success criterion myself using the mainstream browser engines (Blink, Gecko, WebKit). I test using multiple screen readers: Orca (primary, with Firefox and Epiphany), NVDA (with Firefox and Chromium), Windows Narrator (with Microsoft Edge), Apple VoiceOver (with desktop and mobile Safari), and Android TalkBack (with Chromium).
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I also perform cross-browser testing for both HTML and XHTML versions of my pages. I test with, but do not necessarily endorse, a large variety of browsers:
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- I maintain excellent compatibility with **mainstream engines:** Blink (Chromium and Edge), WebKit (Safari, Epiphany), and Gecko (Firefox). The hidden service also works well with the Tor Browser.
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- The site works well with **textual browsers.** Lynx and Links2 are first-class citizens for which all features work as intended. [w3m doesn't support soft hyphens](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830173), but the site is still otherwise usable in it. I maintain compatibility with these engines by making CSS a strictly-optional progressive enhancement and using semantic markup.
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Mainstream engines
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: I maintain excellent compatibility with mainstream engines: Blink (Chromium, Edge, QtWebEngine), WebKit (Safari, Epiphany), and Gecko (Firefox).
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- I also regularly test compatibility with **current alternative engines:** the SerenityOS browser, Servo, NetSurf, Dillo, Kristall, and Goanna (Pale Moon's Gecko fork). I have excellent compatibility with Goanna and Servo. The site is usable in NetSurf, Dillo, and the SerenityOS browser; the always-expanded `<details>` elements might look odd. [The SerenityOS browser doesn't support ECDSA certificates](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/14160), but the Tildeverse mirror works fine. It also has some issues displaying my SVG avatar; it does not attempt to use the PNG fallback.
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Tor Browser
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: My Tor hidden service also works well with the Tor Browser, with the exception of [a page containing an `<audio>` element](http://wgq3bd2kqoybhstp77i3wrzbfnsyd27wt34psaja4grqiezqircorkyd.onion/posts/2022/07/01/experiment-copilot-legality/). The `<audio>` element can't play in the Tor Browser due to a bug involving NoScript and Firefox's handling of the `sandbox` CSP directive. To work around the issue, I include link to download the audio.
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- I occasionally test **abandoned engines,** sometimes with a TLS-terminating proxy if necessary. These engines include Tkhtml, KHTML, Internet Explorer (with and without compatibility mode), Netscape Navigator, Opera Presto,[^1] and outdated versions of current browsers. The aforementioned issue with `<details>` applies to all of these choices. I use Linux, but testing in browsers like Internet Explorer depends on my access to a Windows machine.
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Mainstream engine forks
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: Pale Moon and recent versions of K-Meleon use Goanna, a single-threaded fork of Firefox's Gecko engine. Ultralight is a proprietary, source-available, fork of WebKit focused on lightweight embedded webviews. My site should work in both engines without any noticeable issues.
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Alternative engines
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: I test compatibility with current alternative engines: the SerenityOS browser, Servo, NetSurf, Kristall, and litehtml. I have excellent compatibility with litehtml and Servo. The site is usable in NetSurf, and the SerenityOS browser. Only Servo supports `<details>`. [The SerenityOS browser doesn't support ECDSA certificates](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/14160), but the Tildeverse mirror works fine. The SerenityOS browser also has some issues displaying my SVG avatar; it does not attempt to use the PNG fallback.
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Textual browsers
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: The site works well with textual browsers. Lynx and Links2 are first-class citizens for which all features work as intended. I also test in [felinks (an ELinks fork)](https://github.com/rkd77/elinks), edbrowse, and w3m. [w3m doesn't support soft hyphens](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830173), but the site is still otherwise usable in it. I maintain compatibility with these engines by making CSS a strictly-optional progressive enhancement and using semantic markup. I also test with ; I occasionally try Edbrowse too. In all textual browsers, the aforementioned incomplete `<details>` handling applies.
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Abandoned engines
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: I occasionally test abandoned engines, sometimes with a TLS-terminating proxy if necessary. These engines include Tkhtml, KHTML, Dillo,[^1] Internet Explorer[^2] (with and without compatibility mode), Netscape Navigator, old Presto-based Opera versions,[^3] and outdated versions of current browsers. The aforementioned issue with `<details>` applies to all of these choices. I use Linux, but testing in browsers like Internet Explorer depends on my access to a Windows machine. Besides the `<details>` issues, the site works perfectly well in Internet Explorer 11 and Opera Presto. The site has layout issues but remains usable in Tkhtml, KHTML, and Netscape.
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I strive to maintain compatibility to the following degrees:
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- Works without major issues in mainstream engines, the Tor browser, Goanna, and Ultralight.
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- Fully operable in textual browsers, litehtml, and NetSurf. Some issues (e.g. missing `<details>`) might make the experience unpleasant, but no major functionality will be disabled.
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- Baseline functionality in abandoned engines, Dillo, the SerenityOS browser. Some ancillary features may not work (e.g. forms for Webmentions and search), but you'll still be able to browse and read.
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Some engines I have not yet tested, but hope to try in the future:
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- [Flow Browser](https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/)
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- [gngr](https://gngr.info/)
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- [WeasyPrint](https://weasyprint.org/)
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- [Netzhaut](https://netzhaut.dev/)
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- [Kozmonaut](https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut)
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- [Moon](https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/moon)
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- [hastur](https://github.com/robinlinden/hastur)
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- [Flow Browser](https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/)
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Machine-friendliness
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I think making a site machine-friendly is a great alternative perspective to traditional SEO, the latter of which I think tends to incentivise low-quality content and makes searching difficult. It's a big part of what I've decided to call ["agent optimization"]({{<relref "notes/agent-optimization.md">}}).
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This site is **parser-friendly.** It uses polygot (X)HTML5 markup containing schema.org microdata, microformats2, and legacy microformats. Microformats are useful for IndieWeb compatibility; schema.org microdata is useful for various forms of content-extraction (such as "reading mode" implementations) and search engines. I've also sprinkled in some Creative Commons vocabulary using RDFa syntax.
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This site is **parser-friendly.** It uses well-formed polygot (X)HTML5 markup containing schema.org microdata, microformats2, and legacy microformats. Microformats are useful for IndieWeb compatibility; schema.org microdata is useful for various forms of content-extraction (such as "reading mode" implementations) and search engines. I've also sprinkled in some Creative Commons vocabulary using RDFa syntax.
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I make Atom feeds available for articles and notes, and have a combined Atom feed for both. These feeds are enhanced with Ostatus and ActivityStreams XML namespaces.
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This site is **privacy-respecting.** Its CSP blocks all scripts, third-party content, and other problematic features. I describe how I go out of my way to reduce the information you can transmit on this site in [my privacy policy](../privacy/).
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[^1]: Opera Presto isn't really abandoned. Opera Mini's "Extreme" mode still uses a server-side Presto rendering engine; see {{<mention-work itemprop="citation" role="doc-credit" itemtype="Article">}}{{<cited-work name="Opera Browsers, Modes & Engines" url="https://dev.opera.com/articles/browsers-modes-engines/" extraName="headline">}}{{</mention-work>}}. That being said, I do test with the outdated desktop Presto engine in a sandboxed environment.
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[^1]: Although there's no official announcement of Dillo's demise, the browser development has been inactive for a while. The official site, including its repository, is down; [I mirrored the Dillo repository.](../../notes/2022/06/14/dillo-repository-mirror/)
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[^2]: [Internet Explorer's engine isn't abandoned](../../notes/2022/06/15/internet-explorer-is-almost-gone/), but the consumer version I have access to is.
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[^3]: Opera Presto isn't really abandoned. Opera Mini's "Extreme" mode still uses a server-side Presto rendering engine; see {{<mention-work itemprop="citation" role="doc-credit" itemtype="Article">}}{{<cited-work name="Opera Browsers, Modes & Engines" url="https://dev.opera.com/articles/browsers-modes-engines/" extraName="headline">}}{{</mention-work>}}. That being said, I do test with the outdated desktop Presto engine in a sandboxed environment.
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