Which test files are we talking about here? If they are testing UI widgets, and our long-term goal is to use html and not xhtml for the UI then those tests should, at some point, be in html.
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 1:48 PM Brian Grinstead <bgrinst...@mozilla.com> wrote: > There isn't any particular reason functionally to go to one vs the other > but I think we still generally prefer to get to plain .html if possible. > The reasoning is that it's more common and understood by engineers and > tooling. It also doesn't have XML-specific additions like CDATA in script > tags. > > That said, after talking through this again with Brendan we realized it > may not end up being worth the effort for existing test files. If we were > able to apply some of the incremental changes from step 5 to test .xhtml > files that may be good enough. If the cost was low to include step 3 (like, > if we had a tool that mostly automated away the process) then I’d prefer to > do it. But it could be pragmatic to skip step 3 (at least for test > documents). We’ll be working on some tooling anyway for step 5, so will > spend a bit of time seeing how hard it looks to be to automate the html doc > conversion. > > Brian > > > On May 14, 2019, at 12:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > > On 5/14/19 11:32 AM, Brian Grinstead wrote: > >>> 3. For files where there are no (important) XUL elements in the > >>> markup, rename .xul->.html. > > > > Brian, > > > > Could you expand on why this is preferable (when possible) to renaming > them to .xhtml? Are there benefits to .html over .xhtml for our purposes > here? Is this mostly around how we deal with our tests, as opposed to > actual parts of the UI? > > > > In general, the plan sounds great! > > > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
