- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:24:55 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > However, I don't think the things tested in 002 are controversal. In > particular, all the UAs have converged on the behaviour tested by 002-001 > for other objects Ah, that wasn't the case last I checked. And again, there's no specification I can find that requires it. > 002-002 is explicitly required by the IDL block in Selectors API This is the dependency on WebIDL I was talking about. > and I think there's no controversy over that particular requirement Probably not, though I suspect that Gecko won't implement this any time soon; certainly not until WebIDL stabilizes more. It requires some pretty nontrivial changes. > and 002-003 is a bog-standard DOM test of one of the > requirements in the Selectors API that doesn't really depend on WebIDL at > all. Sure; I didn't have any issues with that one. > So since everyone is converging on the behaviour tested here, it > should be pretty safe. It depends on whether you want tests for behavior that UAs are converging on or for behavior that the relevant specs actually require. >> For that matter, it's not clear to me that test 001 is. > > Why not? I think everything in 001 is non-controversal and tests only > things that are required by Selectors API, no? I was talking about 002-001. -Boris
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