[webkit-dev] Test frame size for reftests

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at chromium.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> ...
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>>> I think this raises two related questions, both of which would be helped
>>> by concrete examples:
>>>
>>> 1) What sort of test are you writing where 800x600 isn't big enough to
>>> test what you need to test?
>>>
>>> 2) What sort of test are you writing where there's needs to be something
>>> on the page not included in the test
>>> *and* will render differently in different browsers?
>>>
>>> I can posit the existence of both sorts of things, but I'm not sure when
>>> they arise in practice?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I've seen tests before that have lots of form controls where a bunch were
>> outside the viewport.
>>
>
> Sure, you *can* write such tests. Did you *have to*?
>

No, assuming he’s talking about fast/forms/basic-textareas.html added in
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/41690.

As far as I know, the intent of the test was to make sure all those
textareas are rendered correctly so we should be splitting the test into
multiple pieces such that every textarea enumerated in the test is visible
if any.

- R. Niwa
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