Re: CSS1 issues to cover for next version

> 
> Report on Amaya 4.3 when tested against the 
> W3.org test suite at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/test/
> 
> Fails test 1.1
> @ This sentence is black. If it is red then...

Fixed.

> Fails test 1.4
> @ This sentence should be black, not red-- class selectors cannot begin with digits in CSS1.

Fixed.

> Fails test 1.5
> @ This sentence should be black, not red-- ID selectors cannot begin with digits in CSS1.

Fixed.
 
> Fails test 1.6
> @ Hello.  The first "hello" should be green, but this part should be black

Fixed.

> Fails test 2.1
> @ Purple unvisited, lime (light green) visited, maroon (dark red) while active (being clicked)
> visited links are not indicated as such -- probably lack of a history stack!!
> 
> Fails test 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
> total failure on first line, first letter, pseudo elements
> 
> Fails test 3.1 (!important)
> 
> Fails test 3.2
> @ This list item should be blue......
>   and so should this; neither should be purple.
> both lines show as grey

Fixed.

> Fails test 4.1.4 floating elements
> 
> Fails test 4.2 no right border in red
> 
> Fails test 4.3 square doesn't align to center
> 
> Fails test 4.4 line heights
> 
> Fails test 4.5 canvas colors
> 
> Fails test 5.2.2 cursive and fantasy fonts are not provided
> 
> I discontinued at this point as there is more than enough work here
> for someone to work on css1 for a long time.
> 
> Also my diagnostic page at
> http://www.cgocable.net/~jrussel/am_dsply.htm 
> leads off with 5 CSS1 issues.  Hopefully many of these
> can be cleared in next version as CSS support is 
> becoming more important in Web design.
> 
> I think that the w3.org test suite should be used 
> more often by the Amaya team to benchmark progress
> towards completion of some of the older specifications
> such as CSS1 and HTML4.
> 
> The major issue IMHO is cascading.  Author settings
> should override user settings unless the !important
> flag is used. Currently this is not happening for
> the background-color component which leads to other
> problems such as display of www.w3.org with background
> setting of anything other than white...
> 
> John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
> http://www.cgocable.net/~jrussel
> Please send complaints to my legal reps
> Dewey, Cheatum & Howe  ATTN: Sue Alotte
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2001 03:41:41 UTC