- From: James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:25:39 +0000
- To: public-browser-tools-testing@w3.org
On 06/02/15 23:45, David Burns wrote: > In http://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html#platform-names we > say that vendors can add their own item if it is not a standardized name. > > How do names become standardized? If there is no standardized way then > perhaps we need to rethink having this section. Since, as an employee at > a vendor creating a new platform, it seems weird that our platform isn't > considered standardised and we can never come out of this state. Things become (formally) standard by the people writing the standard deciding that they should be so. Usually this is based on the observation of a pattern of usage. So as there are more platforms that implementations should support you add more of their names to the standard. The much more troubling thing about that section is that it doesn't really define anything. In general the whole process of going from a newSession object to an actual browser instance of the appropriate type isn't specified.
Received on Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:26:04 UTC