Re: [webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Andrei Bucur
Ojan, As Simon states, some repaint tests will likely not be possible to write correctly as ref tests, but some of them I think they fit very well in the happy-no-pixel-test bucket :). If people decide it's a direction worth investigating, I'll give the idea a spin. Simon, On Fri, May 25, 2012 a

Re: [webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Simon Fraser
On May 24, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Andrei Bucur wrote: > No, I need a way to force a paint operation, similar to what > layoutTestController.display() achieves, but without tracking the paint > rectangles. > > Does anyone you find value in adding an optional parameter to display (or > create another

[webkit-dev] Test the Web Forward

2012-05-24 Thread Dirk Schulze
Hello WebKit community, We want to announce the W3C event "Test the Web Forward" hosted by Adobe. This hackathon builds off the Move the Web Forward initiative in order to help get developers more involved in contributing to the web platform we all work to define. During this hackathon, attend

Re: [webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Andrei Bucur wrote: > No, I need a way to force a paint operation, similar to what > layoutTestController.display() achieves, but without tracking the paint > rectangles. > > Does anyone you find value in adding an optional parameter to display (or > create another

Re: [webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Andrei Bucur
No, I need a way to force a paint operation, similar to what layoutTestController.display() achieves, but without tracking the paint rectangles. Does anyone you find value in adding an optional parameter to display (or create another method on LTC) that disables paint rectangle tracking. The main

Re: [webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Ojan Vafai
Do you just need to force a layout at the end of repaintTest, e.g. document.body.offsetHeight;? On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Andrei Bucur wrote: > Hello WebKittens, > > I'm trying to simplify the patch for a certain repaint bug ( > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59863 ) by using ref

Re: [webkit-dev] Feature announcement: Font Boosting

2012-05-24 Thread John Mellor
> I think it would be great to talk about this at the WebKit summit tomorrow, if you are there. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make the WebKit summit, but beverloo mentioned that you were able to chat a little. I'm happy to discuss further by email or otherwise :) For those who aren't following t

[webkit-dev] Regd. Hardware Rendering

2012-05-24 Thread Sriram Neelakandan
You should start following the accelerated_compositing macro Also reading these might help http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome http://qtwebkit.blogspot.in/2010/10/texture-mapper-accelerated-compositing.html http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Accelerate

[webkit-dev] Using ref tests for repaint bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Andrei Bucur
Hello WebKittens, I'm trying to simplify the patch for a certain repaint bug ( https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59863 ) by using ref tests instead of pixel tests. The test HTML file should first render the document in state 1 and then, by modifying the DOM, render it again state 2. The bug

[webkit-dev] Regd. Hardware Rendering

2012-05-24 Thread debojyoti . pal
Hello, Webkit has two rendering path, software rendering and hardware rendering. When hardware rendering is enabled, it takes the hardware rendering path. I would like to go through the code in the WebCore where it takes the decision to go to either one of the path. As I am very new in using web