Re: Draft spec links in tests [WAS: Seeking review of position:fixed edge case test]

Le 2015-08-17 19:15, Linss, Peter a écrit :
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Le 2015-08-17 16:35, Chris Rebert a écrit :
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Chris Rebert <csswg@rebertia.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Gérard Talbot
>>>> <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org> wrote:
>>>>> Le 2015-07-27 03:21, Chris Rebert a écrit :
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>> I'm trying to get a reviewer for a CSS2 regression test:
>>>>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-test/pull/813
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> Your test is a good test. Indeed iPhone 6, Safari 7+ fail your 
>>>>> test. Here's
>>>>> some review comments.
>>> <snip>
>>>>> 3-
>>>>>    <link rel="help"
>>>>> href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css2/visuren.html#choose-position" 
>>>>> />
>>>>>    <link rel="help"
>>>>> href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css2/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-width" 
>>>>> />
>>>>>    <link rel="help"
>>>>> href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css2/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-height" 
>>>>> />
>>>>> Do not link to draft spec as they can change or will change in the 
>>>>> future.
>>> When I inquired about adding an automatic validation check for this,
>>> Peter Linss replied that there's actually no problem with using draft
>>> spec links in rel="help". See
>>> http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/testing/20150817#l-156 :
>>> [22:09] <cvrebert> plinss: Gerard's feedback in
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2015Aug/0003.html
>>> (and the lack of corresponding complaints from the bot on
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-test/pull/813 ) suggests there's a 
>>> couple
>>> things the bot ought to check that it currently isn't
>>> [22:10] <cvrebert> plinss: (1) https://drafts.csswg.org shouldn't be
>>> used in rel="help" links
>>> [22:11] <plinss> actually, that’s not an issue, draft links are fine
>> 
>> This is news to me.
> 
> We have a large number of tests that only link to drafts, this is fine.
> 
> There _is_ an issue however in that the canonical URLs for all the
> drafts has recently changed from http://dev.w3.org/csswg/... to
> https://drafts.csswg.org/...
> 
> I need to run through the test repository and update those links as
> they're currently broken.
> 
>> 
>> If you link to a section of CSS2.2 and if there is no
>> 
>> http://test.csswg.org/source/css22/
>> 
>> directory, then how is this going to work?
> 
> If a test links to a spec that we are not yet building a test suite
> for, there's no issue. We do still validate if the link is to a known
> spec anchor or not.
> 
> At some point in the future we will start building a test suite for
> CSS 2.2 and then it will pick up all the tests that have links to the
> 2.2 draft.
> 
> Peter

Okay then. Please ignore my previous email sent a few min. ago. Sorry 
about that.

Gérard
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