- From: <ptorr@vantsys.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:51:40 +1000
- To: www-html@w3.org
>>A test suite sounds like a good idea, as long as it's "cheat proof." For me, > > This is part of why I would want the code for the browser, as I >mentioned several e-mails ago earlier in this thread. But as was previously mentioned, it is very difficult (if not impossible) to prove anything about most source code, at least in an imperitive language like C++. I understand where you are coming from, though. You *might* be able to see whether the authors *attempted* to implement certain parts of CSS (in the simplest case, by searching for keywords in the source ;-) ), but you would have next to know way of knowing whether the implementation was *correct*. As for cheating... a while ago Sun Microsystems "cheated" one of the popular Java benchmarks to try and beat Microsoft, but luckily they were caught out by the benchmark vendor. Just goes to show that it *does* happen. Peter ________________________________________ Peter Torr, Applications Developer Vantage Systems - Making Time Pay http://www.vantagesystems.com.au
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