- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:07:53 +0200
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Thomas Scholz <info@scholz-webdesign.de>, www-style@w3.org
On Friday, July 23, 2004, 3:26:59 PM, Philip wrote: PT> Ian Hickson wrote: >> One of the prerequisistes for the test suite will be setting the default >> colours to black text on white background, link colours to blue and >> visited colours to purple, default font size to 16 pixels, resolution to >> 96dpi, and various other such changes. If tests had to handle all the >> various different kinds of setups, they would become ridiculously >> complicated and require support for much more before being able to test >> anything at all. PT> I have to confess, I don't understand this : there will be many, many PT> potential testers who do not have their browsers configured to meet PT> these requirements; why can the tests not start by defining settings PT> for the BODY and/or HTML regions which establishe this environment and PT> by displaying introductory material which can be used to verify that the PT> pre-test criteria are now met : the tests could then go on to test the PT> far more complex issues which they are designed to test without requiring PT> that all testers use the same baseline configuration. That seems reasonable, although its not possible to set resolution using a CSS property. Thankfully. PT> Surely one of the PT> main points of the tests is to ensure that /no matter how/ a user may have PT> elected to configure his/her browser, certain effects can be reliably PT> accomplished using CSS ? PT> Philip TAYLOR -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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