[webkit-dev] Problems porting layout tests to linux

[Jean-Charles VERDIE]

Darin,

We'll schedule a task for identifying in CSS 1/2.1 folders which tests
should be replaced by picture-based ones, and which could not. For the
latter, we'll try to think about workarounds to propose.

Have you an accurate placeholder to suggest for these thoughts? I was not
sure whether bugzilla or wiki would be better....

For others tests folders, I think that if the proposed plan fits WebKit
community's interest, we should file bugs about replacing Tables, Fast and
Traversal by image-based tests, and also bugs about exploring the parts we
haven't done yet (plugin, svg, http, editing)...

Let me know what you think,

Regards
Jean-Charles


On 9/1/06, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Jean-Charles VERDIE wrote:
>
> > It would surely be the best plan, but I'm not sure that it will be
> > possible (in a measurable human-based time). May be the fastest way
> > of having the tests more cross-platform is to split them into three
> > categories:
> > 1- those which already are cross-platform.
> > 2- those which are not cross-platform, but which do not need a
> > font. E.g. comparing 2 cells of a table. We could replace the texts
> > by pictures with a specific size. The test would not be self-
> > documented any more, but we can solve this by a 2-windows solution,
> > one with the explanation, and one with the actual test.
> > 3.1- those which are not cross-platform, but which need a font.
> > Some can be addressed by replacing DumpRenderTree by DumpAsText.
> > 3.2 - ...But other tests in this third will hardly need a font,
> > e.g. css manipulation or font replacement.
> >
> > For this latest part, I don't imagine a solution right now. May be
> > some can be addressed by your proposal #4 But one question is: how
> > much of these tests remain? if we address 1- to 3.1 ? IMHO here is
> > the list :
> > - DOM: already x-platform
> > - plugins / svg / http / editing: we've not started looking at them
> > - Tables, fast, traversal: all should be replaceable by images
> > - CSS 1, 2.1: here is the list of our problems :) There are 362
> > tests in these folders, but may be only 30% of them are belonging
> > to the problematic category so something like a big hundred of
> > tests would need to be re-thinked...
>
> Sounds good. If you would like to start doing some work in this area,
> please let us know about your specific ideas.
>
> Maybe for your (2) above we could make tests where certain parts of
> the page wouldn't dump. That way the test could be self documenting
> but the part that dumps wouldn't be affected by the text.
>
>      -- Darin
>
>


-- 
Jean-Charles Verdié
Origyn Web Browser for Embedded Systems Team
CTO
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