- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:22:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Kris Krueger <krisk@microsoft.com>
- cc: public-html-testsuite@w3.org
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Kris Krueger wrote: > > * Approved test case bug > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11236 is valid and the > spec seems to be inconsistent - Ian (google)? Not sure what this is referring to... what's inconsistent? > * Need help from the editor to solidify the spec in a way so that we > have reliable 'anchors' moving forward that tests can reference I strongly recommend against referencing the spec from the tests. Doing so is a maintenance nightmare, and usually leads to people not questioning invalid tests (because they'll look at the referenced part of the spec, see what they think is the spec confirming the test's validity, and miss some other part of the spec that invalidates the test, even though normally they would not have missed that section since they would have come across it first). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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