- From: Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:00:59 -0700
- To: "Simon Fraser" <smfr@me.com>
- Cc: "Public CSS 2.1 test suite mailing list" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
> On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:35 pm, Gérard Talbot wrote: > >>> background-position-201 >>> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/html4/background-position-201.htm >>> States "the diamond should be moving around the edge of the outer >>> circle", but there is no outer circle visible >> >> Simon, >> >> I now see/understand what you are saying. Yes, there is only 1 visible >> circle (red ... which is a wrong color) and its orbital movement in >> the >> page forms a bigger circle. >> >> The testcase should probably explain this. >> >> The purple diamond should be moving inside the small circle according >> to >> the center of the large, outer circle. > > Suggested wording for this test: > > "There should be a circle with a diamond inside below. The diamond and > the orange circle should be appear to be moving in a circle, around a > common center point. The radius of motion of the diamond should be > slightly shorter than that of the orange circle (measuring the radius to > the center of each shape), so that the diamond is always near the side > of the circle closer to the center of motion." s/circle should be appear to be/circle should appear to be/ > Bonus points if the test actually shows a dot at the center of the > circle of motion. Extra bonus points if such dot is the sun, the red circle is a thumbnail of the moon and the purple diamond is a thumbnail of the earth. Extra extra points if the big circle becomes an ellipse. > > The fact that it's hard to explain what the test should do indicates > that it is not a good test. > 3 pictures and 1 ellipse and suddenly, everything becomes extremely easy to explain :) >> One suggestion is to remove the "Position: % %" displayed >> calculations >> at the bottom of the page: it's not part of the testcase and its >> display >> unneedlessly requires display and system resources. > > Agreed. > > Simon regards, Gérard -- Contributions to the CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ CSS 2.1 test suite (RC2; October 1st 2010): http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/html4/toc.html CSS 2.1 test suite contributors: http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/
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