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Simon Willison

Got distracted digging around in the belly of the MDN browser compatibility tables, and found out their API is served with access-control-allow-origin: *... so now I've built my own little browser support timeline viewer tool! tools.simonwillison.net/mdn-ti

More details here: simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/11/

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Simon Willison

A fun thing to do with an LLM is to dump in an arbitrarily complex blob of JSON and tell it to just figure out a nice way to display it - I've found that Claude 3.5 Sonnet has really good taste in building sensible UIs on top of nested JSON structures gist.github.com/simonw/1af1cd4

Magyk

@simon
It seems that the back/forward navigation doesn't allow exiting from the page using the back button
(tested on Firefox Android)

Stuart Knightley

@simon you might also be interested in bcd-watch.igalia.com to get updates when new APIs get browser support (based on the same MDN data you’re using!)

Rachel Andrew

@simon You might be interested in what we're building over at webstatus.dev/ (which does have an API, though it needs docs). You can already do some pretty interesting queries.

Simon Willison

@rachelandrew yes! That's fantastic, looks like exactly what I want for this kind of stuff

Rachel Andrew

@simon let me know if you have any questions, there's a bunch of work in progress with this (and the underlying data) and if there's stuff you think could be helpful we'd love to know.

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