[Bug 15061] Formats need expanding

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15061

--- Comment #6 from Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> 2012-01-09 19:53:57 UTC ---
We try to be explicit in our assertions as to whether a test is exploratory or
not. Mostly, the difference is dependent on whether the test is served as html
or xml, but there are a few special cases.

So, for example, to check whether <meta charset='utf-8'> works in html4 as well
as in html5 we have separate tests (since it's not specified by html4 and the
html4 test can therefore only be seen as exploratory).  A similar distinction
is made, in the other direction, when testing for the effect of the charset
attribute (which is not part of HTML5).

You can see examples of how we map tests to formats at
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/list-encoding and
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/list-language  (Although those
pages allow you to run a test in a number of formats, we probably only want to
add a few special cases to the w3c test harness.)

Another example would be ruby markup, which is supposed to be supported for
XHTML 1.1 only prior to HTML5, and complex ruby not even in html5. See
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/list-ruby

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Received on Monday, 9 January 2012 19:56:01 UTC