Can you grab the pixel results from the try server?

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just upgraded my dev box to one of the new quad-cores and put Vista
> 64 on it so I can use more memory for the disk cache. (Note: XP64
> isn't one of the standard corp OS images.) I suspect more people will
> want to start doing this (I'm still doing tests, will send out the
> results).
>
> I just realized that I have a problem now: I have no way to run webkit
> pixel tests since the form control reference images all require XP's
> Luna theme. I have three boxes: Vista, Mac, and Linux, so it's not
> reasonable to get another one. It also seems impossible to require
> everybody use XP forever.
>
> WebKit solves this by putting the layout test results of each build in
> a public place on the buildbot (I don't think ours are, are they?) and
> when you change something that has a reference that isn't for your
> system, you just grab it off there, double-check that it's correct,
> and check it in. However, this requires more tolerance of test redness
> than we have had so far.
>
> The other option is to use platform-independent form control
> rendering. This actually isn't too hard. WebKit already has form
> control rendering for when you have funky CSS styles applied (think
> when you set "border-top:2px solid red;" on a text fiend) and we can
> enable this easily enough in our theme control by returning the
> correct values (maybe there are a few edge cases that need cleaning
> up).
>
> This has the advantage of letting people running XP, Vista or either
> of those with the classic theme run the layout tests in a meaningful
> way. It has the disadvantage that none of our native theme rendering
> will be covered by pixel tests, which could lead to regressions.
>
> I'm not sure which approach is better. Does anybody have any thoughts?
>
> Brett
>
> >
>

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