Email updates when specific features are 'fully' supported

[markbeekman]

Hi Alexis,

I've sent you a tweet about this feature yesterday. But it would be really nice if visitors of caniuse.com could subscribe for email updates / notifications when features will be 'fully' supported. Lets say I would like to know when the JS API 'getUserMedia' will be supported on mobile Safari & Android. It would be nice if I could check these platforms on the feature page and subscribe. A really nice feature for your visitors! And you could use the email updates to send some ads and earn some money. Win win!

Good evening,
Mark

[franckl]

+1

[wersimmon]

+1

[LeaVerou]

Nice idea, though "fully supported" is subjective.

[laukstein]

You might be able to atomize it after done #3463.
Don't forget also about push notifications.

[shorn]

I found this issue because I wanted something similar; but I want an RSS feed of changes.
I would be happy enough with this issue implemented as a "watch via email" feature though since I dislike email subscriptions so much that I've built a service to turn emails into RSS feed items.

I want to watch all (or at least major) changes for a specific feature - because as noted by others, my "supported enough that I'm willing to use it" is different from someone else's "fully supported".

I thought I'd add this comment to let people know about the workaround I'm using.

Scenario: I want to know when I can start using the new native lazy loading support.

• I noticed Caniuse publish all their data on Github
• each feature has its own file, e.g. https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/blob/master/features-json/loading-lazy-attr.json
• each Github file has a list of commits, e.g. https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/commits/master/features-json/loading-lazy-attr.json
• Github support turning any list of commits into an Atom feed, e.g. https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/commits/master/features-json/loading-lazy-attr.json.atom

So I bang that last URL into my RSS aggregator - and now I know when this feature gets any updates to its support.

It's a little convoluted, a little noisy, and a little bit of work to figure out what each commit means in terms of changing browser support. But it seems to work.

I do still think this might be a feature that might be worth polishing and adding to caniuse though. Maybe you can make it a feature for Patreon subscribers or something?
(I won't ever use Patreon but I have no problem with you doing what you need to keep caniuse running)

[janosh]

This would be a great addition to caniuse.com. It's already excellent but email notifications when features receive wider support would take it to the next level!