On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As of today, we automatically run our QUnit test suite[4] in MediaWiki
> core from Jenkins.
>

Great news!


> I won't go in detail about what PhantomJS is, but in short:
>
> It is a "headless" WebKit browser. Meaning, it doesn't render pixels
> to a screen on the server side, but it does behave like a fully valid
> browser environment as if it were rendering it to a screen (CSS is
> being parsed, the DOM is there, stylesheets are active, retrieving
> computed styles, ajax requests can be made etc.).
> For more information, see [2].


PhantomJS can render pixels, but I am not sure if it does it by default, or
only when requested. The reason I know it can render pixels is that you can
take a screen shot while driving PhantomJS with Selenium. Screenshots from
a headless browser. Think about it for a minute. :)

Željko
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