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Coping With The Broken Web

A talk on testing browsers

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Transcript

  1. Coping With The Broken Web Rodney Rehm - @rodneyrehm

  2. Where I come from

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  5. I like making stuff simple

  6. …at work

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  8. But…

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  10. What do you mean by „broken“?

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  21. <select> … been around for ages

  22. Events triggered when clicking on <select>

  23. Assumptions… http://www.freefoto.com/preview/41-23-4/American-highway-road

  24. … Reality http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8019/7597671400_9dcf23ab7a_o_d.jpg

  25. Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the

    door. Lois McMaster Bujold

  26. Despair? Opportunity!

  27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mennonitechurchusa-archives/7597671400/in/set-72157630434425392

  28. What do we need?

  29. Single result set

  30. Aggregate results

  31. Beware of the flood

  32. Summary and details

  33. Tools?

  34. Running tests

  35. Running tests

  36. Storing results

  37. Storing results

  38. Test environment

  39. Test environment

  40. github.com/bestiejs/platform.js Identifying browsers

  41. None

  42. Central System?

  43. CSS WG HTML WG

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  45. 64 % 24 % 11 % Approved In Review Unknown

  46. Submitted in January

  47. No Fun

  48. Future?

  49. None
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  52. They‘re working on it!

  53. Motivation?

  54. test suites are run by W3C and browser vendors

  55. collected data equals articles, workshops, talks

  56. YOU are the web, act like it!

  57. Recap • testharness.js to run tests • firebase.io to aggregate

    data • real browsers / devices or BrowserStack • don‘t wait for W3C to get their testing sorted, have some fun now
  58. None

  59. Thank You! Questions?