On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Joel Martin
wrote:
> Thanks for all the feedback. I've collected the responses and replied
> inline.
>
>> James Graham wrote:
>
>> Yes, I imagine specifically font rendering will be a problem, along
>> with antialiasing in general and tegitimate-per-CSS variations
> In addition to feeling less novel, QuickChecking JS
> APIs doesn't feel quite as useful for Servo testing (based on the
> assumption that Servo will be re-using *Monkey).
Most of the JS APIs are part of the DOM and not the built in objects.
These are implemented in the browser itself, not in Spi
Thanks for all the feedback. I've collected the responses and replied
inline.
> Jack Moffitt wrote:
> A sort of subtask of this which would be extremely useful is taking
> a known rendering problem and producing a minimal reproduction of
> it. For example, many issues are discovered in existing
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Lars Bergstrom wrote:
> Along those lines, it's also worth looking at the very recent awesome
> work at the University of Washington formalizing layout (upcoming
> paper at OOPSLA):
> http://cassius.uwplse.org/
>
> I've been in contact with them with the hopes of
On 07/09/16 17:13, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 9/7/16 11:55 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>> There are plenty of rendering bugs that don't involve text, and
>> practically if you're generating arbitrary web pages it's easy to solve
>> all of those problems by simply not including text (though you'll ne
On 9/7/16 11:55 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
There are plenty of rendering bugs that don't involve text, and
practically if you're generating arbitrary web pages it's easy to solve
all of those problems by simply not including text (though you'll need
to give boxes explicit heights!).
Does using
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>>
>> However I think you might make progress with some sort of
>> consensus-based approach e.g. take a testcase and render it in
>> gecko/blink/webkit/edge. If the difference by some metric (e.g. number
>> of differing pixels, although more
On 06/09/16 21:58, James Graham wrote:
> [not sure if this will make it through to the list]
>
> On 06/09/16 21:35, Jack Moffitt wrote:
>>> I haven't quite settled on my dissertation topic, but my top
>>> contender at
>>> the moment involves property-based (i.e. QuickCheck style) generation of
>>>
[not sure if this will make it through to the list]
On 06/09/16 21:35, Jack Moffitt wrote:
I haven't quite settled on my dissertation topic, but my top contender at
the moment involves property-based (i.e. QuickCheck style) generation of
random web pages/stylesheets.
A sort of subtask of this
> I haven't quite settled on my dissertation topic, but my top contender at
> the moment involves property-based (i.e. QuickCheck style) generation of
> random web pages/stylesheets.
A sort of subtask of this which would be extremely useful is taking a
known rendering problem and producing a minim
Hello servo developers,
tl;dr version:
I am considering a dissertation topic somewhere in the vicinity of:
"QuickCheck-ing HTML/CSS rendering in modern browsers". This might have
some relevance for Servo. Interested? Any feedback?
Longer version:
My name is Joel Martin (github.com/kanaka) and
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