On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > The intent is a suite that tests an implementation against the actual > requirement of the Ecma-262 standard. It will be based upon and similar to > what you can already see in the Sputnik and ES5conform suites. Those tests > generally identify a specific requirement of a specific section of the spec. > and then try to prove that the requirement is/isn't met by an implementation. > > Give that the standard specification itself is not particularly > understandable to the general public, it probably isn't reasonable to expect > that all the tests of the specification would be understandable to the same > public. > > However, reasonable understandability is a good goal. What are some of the > characteristics of the W3C suites that make them "acidic"?
I believe that the various "Acid" tests for rendering are what's being referred to here [1]. I think the relevant characteristc is that anyone can run them in their browser, and they display a visual rendering of how "good" a job the browser does, making them into easily-distinguishable markers of conformance to whatever is tested. It's not clear to me whether this would be good for this test suite. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3 -- sam th [email protected] _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
