Re: [css-backgrounds] many Microsoft border-image tests mixing HTML4 with xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

• From: Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:57:40 +0200
• To: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
• Message-ID: <9e849185-7f8b-111e-a4cb-f866c856bee7@gmail.com>

Hi Gérard, all,
On 21/09/18 21:20, Gérard Talbot wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> Tests in section 6 (border-image) of backgrounds test suite:
> 
> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-image-type-001.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-image-type-002.htm 
> 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-width-004.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-slice-006.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-width-001.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-width-002.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-width-003.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-001.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-002.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-003.htm 
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> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-004.htm 
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> 
> All those Microsoft tests mix HTML4 doctype with 
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". Therefore those tests will not be 
> rendered as expected, at least in Chromium 69.0.3497.92 and in Epiphany 
> 11.0 (WebKit 605.1.15; WebKitGTK+ 2.22.0; build 3.29.92-55-gda0f38e33).
> 
> The tests' filenames extension use "htm" (*not* "xht") while the source 
> code uses XHTML1. So the build system is misleaded and creates a 
> non-interoperable HTML4 tests.
> 
> eg
> 
> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/css/css-backgrounds/border-image-image-type-001.htm 
> 

At least in Epiphany, the problem is not related to the doctype or the 
(ignored) xmlns attribute, but is caused by the fact that these files 
are encoded in UTF-16 without a BOM or other kind of encoding declaration.

HTH
Ms2ger

Received on Monday, 24 September 2018 09:58:05 UTC