[webkit-dev] sharing more test references

Tue Nov 13 17:16:40 PST 2012

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <body style="margin: 0px">
> <div style="height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: green">
>
> Does seem pretty simple.
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <body style="margin: 0px">
> <svg><rect width="100px" height="100px" fill="green"><svg>
>
> is even shorter. :)
>
> I support getting rid of pixel tests.  I suspect that some very dumb
> scripts could turn large chunks of these existing pixel-tests into
> ref-tests.  I doubt that those would be the interesting ones though
> (where platforms have divergent results).
>

I've been spending a fair amount of time working on this, actually. I
think it's harder than you might think. I'm happy to talk further
about it.