On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, tradervik wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> Hear hear. I have the same feelings coming from a standards compliance
>> point of view -- we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
>> us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the rush?
>
> I hope the "thousands" is just a bit of "rhetorical exhuberance."
Nope, sorry.
A quick check just now revealed around 3700 open bugs in standards
compliance components (excluding Mail).
This is around a quarter of the 16,000 open bugs.
> Is there a way of searching for "standards compliance" bugs? Perhaps there
> is a keyword similar to the "polish" one for user experience bugs?
This comes close:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&product=Browser&component=Compositor&component=Cookies&component=DOM+Content+Models&component=DOM+Core&component=DOM+Events&component=DOM+HTML&component=DOM+Other&component=DOM+Style&component=DOM+Traversal-Range&component=DOM+Views+and+Formatting&component=Event+Handling&component=Form+Submission&component=HTML+Element&component=HTML+Form+Controls&component=HTMLFrames&component=HTMLTables&component=ImageLib&component=Javascript+Engine&component=Layout&component=MathML&component=Networking&component=Networking%3A+Cache&component=Networking%3A+File&component=Networking%3A+FTP&component=Networking%3A+HTTP&component=Parser&component=RDF&component=Style+System&component=Views&component=XB!
L&component=XML&component=XSLT&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&namedcmd=CSS+Test+Cases&newqueryname=Compliance+Bugs&tofooter=1&order=Assignee
Of course, some of those are minor things, typos in error messages and
RFEs, for example. But I would say the majority are valid bugs.
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