Re: DOM Level 2 TS results

"Rick Rivello" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.test-suites.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

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> RESULTS FROM IE6
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> Tests with problems (49 total) - JsUnit
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> Dropping out all the type mismatches
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> 3.
> file:///C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/2001/DOM-Test-Suite/build/level2/html/e
> cmascript/tests/HTMLAppletElement11.html:HTMLAppletElement11 failed
> "objectLink"
> Expected org/w3c/domts/DOMTSApplet.class (string) but was  (object)
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> [CA] I think this test comes from a misreading of the spec.  The spec
> mentions that value of the object attribute containing the serialized form
> of a class would contain the classname the classname, however it would also
> contain the serialization of member variables.  However, this test expects
> it to be exactly the classname.  Plus, there does not appear to be any
> compulsion that accessing the object property would force an immediate
> serialization of the applet to provide the content.  In fact, the
> recommendation suggests stopping the applet before serialization, which
> would suggest that evaluating object should not imply a serialization.
> 
> If this test is to be salvaged, I would create another applet file that
> specifies a value for the object attribute.
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    I'm not sure I understand. 
    The above test loads applet2.html which has an object attribute specified.
    What else is needed to make the test valid?
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