W3C DOM Level 1 Conformance Test Suite Released 10
Dimitris Dimitriadis of Ontologicon , W3C Representative to the DOM Test Suite Group, writes with an announcement also signed by Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C DOM Activity lead, and Mary Brady of NIST: "The DOM Test Suite Group releases the first version of the DOM
Conformance Test Suite, Level 1 Core.
The first version of the DOM Conformance Test Suite for Level 1 Core has
been released by the DOM Test Suite Group. The DOM TS aims at helping
implementors test their implementations' conformance with the W3C DOM
Level 1 specification. This work, launched by W3C and NIST, is a publically developed and open
framework to test the DOM Level 1 Core implementations. Read about the
Document Object Model (DOM) Conformance Test Suites at
http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test, where you can also download the DOM TS
distribution. Comments are appreciated and need to be sent to www-dom-ts@w3.org
(online archive at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts)."
IE is way more compatible than Mozilla? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:IE is way more compatible than Mozilla? (Score:1)
Just tested ECMAScript on Mozilla 0.9.8. I got 25 failures and 63 errors out of 290 runs! It is not very good, isn't it? IE6 gives 18 failures and 10 errors. Really sad...
Well that's one way of looking at it. Support for the DOM in IE has been pretty good for a while; it's just that they didn't draw attention to it by dropping their proprietary DOM. CSS on the other hand...
However, if IE/Mozilla/Opera/etc. are competing to get these errors down then everyone wins. It's a virtuous circle; I'm mildly optimistic about the web when I see vendors compete to improve support for standard features.
Yes, it's slightly sad for Mozilla that it lags in these tests. However, it's good for everyone in the long run if there are independent tests published and people care about the results.
It's not a zero sum game. Better standard support in IE makes it easier for developers to write corss-platform code.
Re:IE is way more compatible than Mozilla? (Score:1, Informative)
I tested todays mozilla build (2-15)
and it only has 19 failures and 58 errors,
so IE and Moz are quickly converging.
I'm willing to bet that the next IE release
and mozilla 1.0 will both have 0 failures, 0 warnings.
More complicated than just counting failed tests (Score:2, Insightful)