Comments on [RC6] background-position-applies-to-004, vertical-align-117, vertical-align-118

Arron,

[RC6]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/background-position-applies-to-004.htm

[nightly-unstable]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/background-position-applies-to-004.htm

This testcase is supposed to test background-position applied to a
table-row. Now, if the table-row has only 1 single cell, then how can
such testcase be different from testing background-position being
applied to a table-cell?

My point is that to give a honest, good challenge to browsers, such
testcase should make the table-row have 2 cells at minimum, and ideally
the table should have at least 2 table-rows.

All this is furthermore justified if other testcases demonstrate
failures in some browsers. The testcase I have in mind here is

http://the-dees.webs.com/iepp1/55-tr-bg-position.html

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[RC6]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/vertical-align-117.htm

[nightly-unstable]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/vertical-align-117.htm

[RC6]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/vertical-align-117.htm

[nightly-unstable]
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/vertical-align-118.htm

When the set height of line box is the height of the font, then
'vertical-align: text-bottom' and 'vertical-align: bottom' are by
definition (positioned) the same: the bottom of the line box is given by
the bottommost point of glyphs (like descenders of p, q, y, j glyphs) of
the font. Same thing with text-top and top.

What I am trying to say here is that vertical-align values text-bottom,
text-top, bottom and text-bottom should be tested where/when the
line-height is greater than the font-size. So that top half-leading and
bottom half-leading are not 0. So that such values give different
rendered layout, different vertical values. So that vertical-align
values text-bottom, text-top, bottom and text-bottom show and
demonstrate differences. Otherwise, it is not a well targeted testcase,
even for a basic testing of vertical-align values text-bottom, text-top,
bottom and text-bottom.

I suggest a line-height of 3em: that way, fractional pixel (for top
half-leading and bottom half-leading) are avoided, top is
predictable/predicted to be 1em further toward the top of text-top,
bottom is predictable/predicted to be 1em further toward the bottom of
text-bottom.

regards, Gérard
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Received on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 22:13:20 UTC