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Re: Ref-test image flakiness when web fonts are used

From: James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:01:08 +0100
To: public-test-infra@w3.org
Message-ID: <adb24926-1299-736e-8c3e-95c3425a6e20@hoppipolla.co.uk>
On 28/03/17 04:04, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> Ping Geoffrey. Koji and I were just chatting and it seems reasonable to
> have reftests wait for webfonts by default, as long as there is an escape
> hatch so that it's possible to test with slow-loading fonts or what happens
> if a first font load fails and then you try to load another font. Would it
> be weird to treat class="reftest-wait" as that escape hatch, or do we need
> something else?

I think that works OK because presumably in that case you want some 
control over when you decide the load is done anyway.

> Practically speaking, how do we go about proclaiming that reftests now
> should wait for document.fonts.ready? Is it a matter of changing wptrunner
> and filing browser bugs that they probably want to do something similar?

That seems reasonable to me.
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