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html.elements.select - various outdated notes

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Description

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
  1. Chrome, Webview Android, Chrome Android, and Samsung Internet have an outdated note about border-radius which at some point has become no longer relevant to Blink browsers.

  2. WebView Android also has another note that is almost definitely no longer relevant
    image

  3. Firefox has a note that is potentially no longer relevant (see also https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/issues/12592 Point 1 for a similar/identical note.
    image

  4. Firefox Android has a note about background-image that I believe is no longer relevant.
    image

What did you expect to see?

No longer relevant notes removed.

Did you test this? If so, how?
  1. Tested in Chrome and Safari (both on desktop) by adding a border-radius in dev tools.

  2. No.

  3. No.

  4. Loaded a select multi in Firefox android and didn't see anything odd with the input.

Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select

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Research direction

Review html/elements/select.json and the linked MDN select documentation first. Check whether each listed browser note still applies, using the browser cases described in the issue where needed. Done means the outdated notes are removed while any still-relevant compatibility notes remain.

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Assessment

Tech stack
html
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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