Re: Harness Timeout versus <html class="reftest-wait">

On Thursday 2015-09-17 16:28 -0400, Gérard Talbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My message here is mostly a wiki-documentation topic.
> 
> <html class="reftest-wait">
> 
> used to be the way tests were coded in order for them to wait before
> comparing with a reference.
> 
> http://test.csswg.org/shepherd/search/testcase/spec/css21/content/class%3D%22reftest-wait%22/
> 
> Now, we are supposed to use
> 
> <meta name="timeout" content="long">
> 
> or
> 
> <meta name="timeout" content="normal">
> 
> to achieve, to create such wait.
> 
> Is my assumption/supposition correct here?

Although I'm not as familiar with the <meta name="timout">, I think
these are two different things.

reftest-wait is a class that should be removed when the test is
ready to be snapshotted.

However, a test harness needs a mechanism to give up on tests that
fail to remove this; for this, it uses a timeout, after which it
marks the test as having failed because it never completed.  <meta
name="timeout"> looks like it exists to adjust that timeout.

-David

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Received on Thursday, 17 September 2015 22:08:27 UTC