- From: Justin Wood (Callek) <116057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:45:37 -0500
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>, public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Tantek Çelik wrote:
>On 11/21/04 3:58 AM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Michael Day wrote:
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>>>Would it be possible to replace the GIF images used for the yin/yang
>>>symbol with PNG images, given that the tests that use it (float tests)
>>>are not testing GIF support?
>>>
>>>
>>Well, they're not testing PNG support either, but sure.
>>
>>I've converted all the GIFs to PNGs. This will probably cause IE6 to fail
>>on a couple more tests.
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>This is contrary to some of the CSS test suite philosophy, which is to not
>test the things that are not being tested. And given that GIF support is
>more prevalent than PNG support, of the two, GIFs should be preferred.
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>Thanks,
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>Tantek
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Tantek,
In that case I would propose and request that a version of the same
test be released both with PNG and GIF versions, with a note that EITHER
version's success will "PASS"...
Yes GIF is more prevelant but current Copyright issues prevent some
UA's from supporting GIF at all.
~Justin Wood (Callek on moznet IRC)
Received on Monday, 22 November 2004 03:46:42 UTC