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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Thursday September 01, 2005
05:26 PM

Testing CSS?

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Does anyone know of any automated software testing tool which can verify that CSS is doing what it should? The closest thing I can think of is to try and write some hooks into Firefox, but that hardly seems like a reasonable way to go -- and it's certainly not portable (assuming it's possible).

Part of the reason this came up is my XSLT can tranform the first letter of a word to upper case, but this is better done in CSS. However, if I move it there, there's no way to test if it breaks at a later date.


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  • Part of the reason this came up is my XSLT can tranform the first letter of a word to upper case, but this is better done in CSS.

    I'm not convinced this is better done in CSS. Correct capitalisation of words sounds pretty important to me, and given the wide range of browers and CSS support that exists, I wouldn't trust CSS to do it reliably in all circumstances.

    I believe that on a very fundamental level any website should be comprehensible even with CSS turned off. This supports the various non-grap

  • Not all clients will support the CSS method. Do it server-side.

  • Ian Hixie, of Opera (and Mozilla) has done lots of work with testing CSS mainly from the point of view of determining how well browsers support CSS, but it might be possible to use something similar for verifying that you haven't broken your style-sheets.

    I believe the general idea for regression testing is to make a browser render a page, wait 10 seconds, take a screenshot, and then check it is identical to one you prepared earlier.

    I've only read about this, I haven't tried doing it, so I c

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