- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 02:22:51 +0100
- To: John Jansen <John.Jansen@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
John Jansen wrote: > I was just looking through the multicol test suite, and it looks to > me like there is a problem with the reference files. > > For example, the test for reduce-000 [1] and the reference [2] have > the exact same CSS in them. I would expect the ref to use something > other than columns in order to achieve the same effect as the > actual test file. This is also true in the basic reference file as > well [3]. > [1] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css3-multicol/nightly-unstable/html4/multicol-reduce-000.htm > [2] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css3-multicol/nightly-unstable/html4/multicol-reduce-000-ref.htm > [3] http://test.csswg.org/suites/css3-multicol/nightly-unstable/html4/multicol-basic-ref.htm Right. These tests were originally written as a one-page humanistic test: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0278.html It was suggested that the tests were converted to reftest format. I was somewhat hesitant to do so: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2010JulSep/0085.html And, as you have noticed, some of the tests are not very meaningful when converte to reftests. I don't know of a way to render the text without using columns in a way that guarantees exactly the same line breaking etc. Perhaps it's better to keep the one-page humanistic test as just that, and to write new tests for automated testing. Here's the beginnings of an automated test suite: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2011Sep/0041.html Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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