- From: Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:25:01 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > If the goal is to get browsers to implement, how is it more valuable? > > Browser vendors ignore W3C test suites to an even greater extent than > > they ignore bug reports. In particular, I don't believe browser vendors > > typically run W3C test suites en masse regularly, whereas they do > > regularly look at the bug reports that get filed on them. > > My purpose was to lament that we currently lack the infrastructure > needed so that people interested in new features or other changes can > contribute tests for those features and changes to such suites. That > very much includes that many of the existing suites suck badly. > > That would have many benefits, for instance, it makes it easy to track > the implementation status of something across many implementations, > which is information that web developers critically need, and it helps > to identify cases where one browser is the odd one out. I would rather > people help us work on tests than helping Anne fill out web forms. Such an infrastructure is in the process of being built[1]. See the Test the Web Forward effort[2] which now regroups all of Open Web platform testing[3]. You're welcome to contribute. --tobie --- [1]: http://testthewebforward.org/blog/2013/02/20/testing-the-open-web-platform.html [2]: http://testthewebforward.org/ [3]: http://testthewebforward.org/blog/2013/10/30/welcoming-testtwf-to-w3c.html
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