Host the Microsoft Edge 2024 web platform top dev needs

[captainbrosset]

The Microsoft Edge team recently published our list of identified top 2024 web platform dev needs at https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/ (announcement blog post).

We'd love it if we could host our list on webstatus.dev instead. Would you be opened to us adding an additional entry in the left table of content sidebar for our identified features?

If so, we're happy to look into submitting PRs to this repo.

Here are a few open questions to consider first:

• Intro text: our dashboard has an intro paragraph which we'd love to preserve. Any technical and/or UI concerns to adding intro text to specific view on your dashboard?

• View name length: "Edge 2024 web platform top developer needs dashboard" is very long. We can shorten it up. Any constraints on webstatus.dev for how long view names have to be?

• Graphs: our dashboard currently shows graphs of passing WPT subtests over time directly, without having to navigate to another page. There's a big one at the top showing the sum from all features, and individual feature graphs in <details> elements. webstatus.dev does have graphs as well, but only when you navigate to feature pages. Is this something you'd be opened to? Can we help with it?

[jcscottiii]

Hi @captainbrosset

Thanks for the suggestion!

I will split my response into two parts. First part to address graphs. Second part to address the filtered view bookmark. This is because we plan on adding graphs but not to the homepage. But rather a separate statistics page. More below.

Graphs

We are working on a statistics page for aggregations like this across many sources not just WPT. We already have a backend endpoint that would help power this kind of WPT graph on the statistics page. (api.webstatus.dev/v1/stats/wpt/browsers/{browser}/channels/{channel}/subtest_counts)

For example:
Given features view-transitions, blocking-render and popover, I want to see the subtest count over time for stable Edge, for all the last year: https://api.webstatus.dev/v1/stats/wpt/browsers/edge/channels/stable/subtest_counts?startAt=2023-05-01&endAt=2024-05-01&featureIds=view-transitions&featureIds=blocking-render&featureIds=popover

We are still discussing which graphs will be included in the first version of that statistics page. If we do include feature support on that version, I could potentially see that kind of bookmark on the graph 😃. Or we may extend #325 to include saved views of the graphs that people can share.

Let me discuss this with the team next week and get back to you about which graphs we plan on to include on the statistics page.

New Bookmark on the Left Side

I think this is a great topic that we can talk about in #277 (especially to highlight what features are deemed important to each vendor). I personally believe something like that would be beneficial. It would be easy to implement as vendors could add to this array

webstatus.dev/frontend/src/static/js/components/webstatus-sidebar-menu.ts

Lines 76 to 78 in 5e47d98

	const DEFAULT_BOOKMARKS: Bookmark[] = [
	{name: 'Baseline 2023', query: 'baseline_date:2023-01-01..2023-12-31'},
	];

But one question, is this a list of features that are set at the beginning of the year or could this list evolve over the year? We are also working on issue #325 plus allowing people to favorite your searches (which can change over time as you see fit).

I am very excited to collaborate in the future. I will get back to you on the statistics page. And let me know if you have any thoughts or questions about my response.