On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > For the engineer use case, we can make a command-line tool to launch the > server and load the test. But it's kind of sad that in ~95% of cases, the > only value provided by the server is resolving the path to testharness.js. If > tests referenced testharness.js via relative path, then most of the time they > could be loaded as local files just fine, which would be more convenient (as > well as, I believe, solving the "external trac link" issue).
I think the main problem with not running a server is that behavior for file URLs is not defined. And browsers tend to impose different restrictions there. So you might end up debugging something only to later found out it didn't work due to file URL restrictions. And you can't guarantee that something will work from a file URL, because there's no agreement on what will. I personally just keep web-platform-tests running and don't notice much overhead (MacBook Air, Mid 2012). -- https://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
