Re: Animated test flag

> Hey,
>
> There are a number of animated tests within the testsuite that are
> animated:
>
> background-animated-001 (Hixie)
> background-position-201 (Hixie)
> cursor-024 (Hixie)
> floats-137 (Hixie)
> text-decoration-059 (MS)
> text-decoration-060 (MS)

Geoffrey,

There are several others with text-decoration: blink

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-004.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-007.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-010.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-013.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-014.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-015.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-016.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-018.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-020.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-022.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-024.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-026.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-027.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-028.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-030.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-032.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-033.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-034.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-035.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-036.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-037.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-038.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-039.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-040.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-041.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-042.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-043.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-044.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-045.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-046.htm

and then

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-047.htm

to

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100917/html4/text-decoration-064.htm

inclusively.

>
> floats-137 should, in theory, be doable as a reftest. However, even
> keeping it as it is now (i.e., non-self-describing) and converting it is
> non-trivial due to AA differences in all browsers between the test and
> reference.
>
> The others are specifically testing animation, so the animation there is
> unavoidable. I'd like to propose an "animated" flag for these tests, as
> it effectively makes them impossible to automate using either reftests
> or screenshot-result key-value pairs, and it'd be nice to make it
> possible to get a list of automatable tests from the metadata alone.

I agree with and support your "animated" flag proposal.

regards, Gérard
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Received on Saturday, 25 September 2010 21:55:41 UTC