When overridePreferences was added back in the day: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/39212
The contract was that DRT would call resetDefaults between tests. I don't know what the current status of resetToDefaults implementations in other ports or in non-WK1 architectures. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Brady Eidson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Simon Fraser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> First, direct calls on testRunner that just set preferences should be >> migrated to internals.settings or testRunner.overridePreference calls, I >> think (I don't know if either is preferred). > > > I support the idea of unifying the approaches and just use > internals.settings. However, the last time I checked, Alexey had some > concerns about using internals due to settings may not be properly > propagated to WebKit2 layer. Has this concern been addressed? > > > In general I prefer the overridePreference() calls whenever they exist. > > internals.settings are not exposed in any real-world product whereas > preferences exist in each platform's WebKit-layer API that they expose to > their embedders in some form. > > ~Brady > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

