- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:07:29 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: >On Sat, 29 May 2004, Justin Wood wrote: > > >>I'm not sure, but clarifying the pass/fail a bit more can't hurt: >> >> "If your UA uses a pointing device, the cursor must be [......] >> otherwise this test fails." >> >> > >IMHO, > > "X must be Y otherwise the test has failed" > >...and: > > "X should Y" > >...mean the same thing except the latter is much easier to understand. > >I really don't see the advantage of changing this. Almost every test says >"should". If someone doesn't understand that "This line should be green." >means that if it isn't green the test has failed, then someone should >explain that to them, because they're going to have trouble ever finding >a failure. > > > Well as far as I am concerned, (completely my opinion) the other tests, say should, along with /one/ feature tested...the one in question says "check that they look the same, " for the selection AND it says that the cursor should be the same, which usually is ok, but with the text as is, is a bit misleading....perhaps splitting the two /features/ then? ~Justin Wood
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