[webkit-dev] Initial painting time changed?

[Simon Fraser]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:

> Am 30.01.2012 um 21:44 schrieb James Robinson:
> 
>> I didn't see any regressions, pixel tests or otherwise, when running with this patch, nor did the bots.  What platform / test configuration are you seeing issues on?
> Well, that's exactly the problem, there are no regressions - if we break repainting within svg, we can not notice it anymore due the changed painting timing, as all tests use the seTimeout(0, doTest()) scheme, as I explained in my initial mail.
> Previously we repainted the document, then execute JS that eg. mutated a rect, then triggered the final repainting using layoutTestController.notifyDone() (speaking about pixel tests right now).
> I should have stated more clearly, but this is only about pixel testing.
> 
> I tried a crude hack, and disabled all dynamic repainting, and still most tests pass, as the first painting now happens after the scripts all finished executing, instead of inbetween as it used to happen.
> 
>> This should not be an observable change in behavior.  setTimeout() vs painting behavior has never been guaranteed in DRT or in actual browsers.
> I'm not arguing that the way of testing is perfect, though its obvious that it changed for DRT, and we now have a lot of useless svg tests, and can't catch any regressions, even with pixel tests.
> 
> Cheers,
> Niko

Are we actually sure that the updateStyleForAllDocuments() changes caused this?

Perhaps DRT/WTR need to do something now that they didn't do before.

Simon