Right but you wouldn't know platform-specific issues until you land them. e.g. rounding errors, subtle font differences in edge cases, etc...
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Jacob Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't the goal of writing a ref test that it is not platform specific? > > From: Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:29:42 -0700 > To: Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> > Cc: Dirk Pranke <[email protected]>, WebKit Development < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Handling failing reftests > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I agree that it's hard sometimes to construct reftests that work, but >> once you've done so, the cost on the project of maintaining the test is >> usually considerably lower than pixel tests. >> > > Not so sure. There are cases where we have these platform specific > failures for ref tests, and they're much harder to fix than rebaselining > pixel results. > > - Ryosuke > >
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