- From: Dimitris Dimitriadis <dimitris@ontologicon.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:46:06 +0100
- To: rayw@netscape.com (Ray Whitmer)
- Cc: Curt Arnold <carnold@houston.rr.com>, www-dom-ts@w3.org
I'm also in favour of this and I'm glad a company representatvie holds the same views. /Dimitris On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 04:39 , Ray Whitmer wrote: > My opinion is we should only accept submitted tests in the XML DOMTS > format. If there are binding-specific things, then this should be > accomodated using that format. I do not feel that the potential for > getting more tests in a particular language outweighs the advantage in > getting all of them in a platform-neutral way. > > Were the current guidelines not strict, the anticipated Netscape > contributions would not be language-neutral. If the tests were not > language-neutral, and some tests were submitted that did not apply to > the platform I work on, my incentive to care about the correctness of > the tests would diminish, which I believe would result in a lower > quality. > > On the other hand, Netscape would have loved to just dump all its tests > into someone else's hands and not worry so much about format or > quality. > > Ray Whitmer > rayw@netscape.com > > Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote: > >> I brought up the issue, but I still think we should anticipate that >> submitted tests are in the XML DOMTS format in order to allow for >> generating both bindings. Do you think the advantage of having tests >> submitted in a particular language outweighs the design we currently >> have? >> >> >>> >>>> DOM WG: I (again) raised the issue of having to get more tests >>>> submitted >>>> from member companies, especially as we want to move along as a WG to >>>> reach Recommendation of DOM level 3. The DOM WG members promised to >>>> look >>>> into this and try to allocate resources. I also brought the issue >>>> that >>>> there have been very limited resources working on the DOM TS to the >>>> DOM >>>> WG's attention, indicating that this cannot continue indefinitely if >>>> we >>>> want to ensure some sound quality requirements for the DOM TS. >>> >>> >>> Making any existing tests (in whatever language) available would be a >>> great >>> help. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
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