- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:40:56 -0500
- To: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
On 2/21/12 7:42 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > The problem the test suite is meant to solve is that sometimes authors > write certain style sheets and browser behave differently in manners > they could not reasonably be expected to anticipate or are otherwise > bad. In other words, they are meant to draw attention to problems that > need to be solved. If the tests are easy to analyze or follow what's > considered good coding practise, that's nice If the test is not easy to analyze, it's generally hard to impossible to tell whether the test is demonstrating a bug in the test or a bug in browsers, especially if several browsers agree on their rendering of the test. Note that being easy to analyze is the important thing; good coding practice is only relevant insofar as it aids analysis. -Boris
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