Re: rowIndex inconsistencies in the testsuite

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Faure" <david@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
> Cc: "Lars Knoll" <knoll@kde.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 6:22 PM
> Subject: rowIndex inconsistencies in the testsuite
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 23:51, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:29, David Faure wrote:
> > > > Most of the failing table tests are due to the section reordering issue. I sent
> > > > a mail to this list about it, but it remained unanswered. The subject line was
> > > > "Order of table sections". I would be glad if this could trigger some discussion :)
> > > 
> > > Looking at [1], it appeared that this issue was closed at:
> > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2002OctDec/0044.html
> > > It seemed like Mozilla and IE are following the same behavior here.
> > 
> > I'm now hitting a problem with rowIndex, which is answered in the above link.
> > If I understand correctly, the new, and correct behaviour, is that rowIndex
> > (quoting the DOM spec)
> > "is in logical order and not in document order. The rowIndex does take into 
> > account sections (THEAD, TFOOT, or TBODY) within the table, placing THEAD 
> > rows first in the index, followed by TBODY rows, followed by TFOOT rows."
> > 
> > If that's the case, then I believe the tests HTMLCollection07 and 
> > HTMLCollection08 have a bug, they expect the wrong value for rowIndex.
> > (On the other hand HTMLTableRowElement01.html expects the right value,
> > so there's currently no way to pass all those tests :)  ).
> > 
> 
>      I agree with David that the tests are in error and should be changed.
>      Before I make the changes does anyone else have any comments or objections?
> 
> Rick Rivello
> 

      The changes to HTMLCollection07 and HTMLCollection08 have been made
      and committed to the testsuite.

Rick Rivello

Received on Thursday, 19 December 2002 07:32:27 UTC