Re: img_border_percent , object_border_perc and object_border_pixel testcases

Hi Gérard,

On 09/29/2011 08:36 PM, public-html-testsuite@gtalbot.org wrote:
> http://w3c-test.org/html/tests/approved/xhtml5/img_border_percent.xhtml
> http://w3c-test.org/html/tests/approved/xhtml5/object_border_perc.xhtml
> http://w3c-test.org/html/tests/approved/xhtml5/object_border_pixel.xhtml
 >
> So, the logical question would be how far back should backward
> compatibility go in HTML5?

As specified in the Rendering section, in this case. See [1] in particular.

> All those testcases have no link to their authors. Is that normal? I mean,
> submitted testcases do not have to indicate their author or sources?

That's normal, yes.

> All those testcases have no assertion, no explanation for the rendering.
> If border="50%" is to be parsed and have a rendering effect with a border,
> then shouldn't the testcase have an assertion defining and explaining with
> regards to which element (containing block or element itself?) is such
> percentage applied on?

The test asserts that "50%" is treated as "50", as required by [1].

(I believe these tests should be converted to reftests, but they were 
approved before we had a bad on unnecessary manual tests.)

> I wish to submit 2 testcases. Is there a webpage somewhere explaining
> steps to follow, guidelines, etc?

The process is described (somewhat) at [3].

HTH
Ms2ger

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/html/#attributes-for-embedded-content-and-images

> When an img element, object element, or input element with a type
> attribute in the Image Button state is contained within a hyperlink
> and has a border attribute whose value, when parsed using the _rules
> for parsing non-negative integers_ [2], is found to be a number greater
> than zero, the user agent is expected to use the parsed value for
> eight presentational hints: four setting the parsed value as a pixel
> length for the element's 'border-top-width', 'border-right-width',
> 'border-bottom-width', and 'border-left-width' properties, and four
> setting the element's 'border-top-style', 'border-right-style',
> 'border-bottom-style', and 'border-left-style' properties to the
> value 'solid'.

[2] http://www.whatwg.org/html/#rules-for-parsing-non-negative-integers

[3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Testing/Submission/

Received on Friday, 30 September 2011 18:49:18 UTC