- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:59:25 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Sjoerd Visscher" <sjoerd@heeten.nl>
- Cc: "www-html" <www-html@w3.org>
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: > BUT when the w3c issues an official browser test, > programmers will test their beta-browser on it, > and tweaking the code until it passes the test. > Programmers may incorrectly think that passing > the test means a 100% working browser. > > This means that issuing an official browser test > may even ENCOURAGE BUGGY CODE. True, passing a test suite doesn't guarantee conformance. But, working daily with browser vendors who use the CSS1 test suite, I don't quite understand how a test suite -- being reasonbly complete and well-designed -- would encourage more bugs. My experience point in exactly the opposite direction. -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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