[webkit-dev] W3C/NIST DOM Test Suites: Background Info

[David D. Kilzer]

Bug 3609 filed for the "onload" event of an iframe element not firing.

   http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3609

Dave


On Jun 18, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Curt Arnold wrote:

> [...]
>
> The ECMAScript productions come in a two flavors: A JSUnit-hosted  
> (http://www.jsunit.net) test suite and a self-hosted test suites.   
> The JSUnit test suite can be configured to use several different  
> approaches to loading the test documents.  The most common for HTML  
> browsers is the IFRAME loader which manipulates documents that are  
> loaded by setting the src attribute on IFRAME elements that are  
> embedded in the JSUnit test definition.  Unfortunately, Safari and  
> Konqueror do not dispatch the "load" event to the document  
> containing the IFRAME element which causes the JSUnit test suite to  
> think that the test documents never load.
>
> The "self-hosted" productions were created to test implementations  
> that could not run JSUnit, particularly the Palm OS browser  
> (resource issues), ie:Mac Safari/Konqueror (the load event issue),  
> and SVG browsers.  The self-hosted tests embed the test script into  
> the test document and the script is run when the document completes  
> loading and then change the document to indicate the success or  
> failure of the test.  For example, the SVG tests turn into a green  
> rectangle if pass, red if failed.  This approach allows most tests  
> to be run in browsers that don't support JSUnit, however tests that  
> depend on loading multiple documents can't be produced.
>
> [...]