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

[Darin Adler]

On Jun 18, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Curt Arnold wrote:

> 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.

Completely independent of getting JSUnit running, I'd love to see  
these "self-hosted" versions in the WebCore/layout-tests directory. I  
think that Geoffrey Garen and Justin Garcia were talking about  
working on this.

     -- Darin