Coping With The Broken Web

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Coping With The Broken Web Rodney Rehm - @rodneyrehm

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Why Me?

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http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/

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http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/designing-javascript-apis-usability/

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I like making stuff simple

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… recently at work

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But…

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What do you mean by „broken“?

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… been around for ages

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Events triggered when clicking on http://rodneyrehm.github.io/select-events/

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

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

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Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door. Lois McMaster Bujold

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Despair? Opportunity!

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

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Grokking Results

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Single result set

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Aggregate results

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Beware of the ﬂood

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Summary and details

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thewebevolved.com/support/animation/properties/

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Tools?

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Running Tests

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Running tests

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Running tests

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Running tests

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https://github.com/rodneyrehm/testharness-helper

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Aggregating Results?

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Storing results

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Storing results

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Test Environment?

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(some) real devices!

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(some) real devices!

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virtual machines

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virtual machines s

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Which Browser Is This?

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github.com/bestiejs/platform.js Identifying browsers github.com/tobie/ua-parser

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Utilities?

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Central System?

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CSS WG HTML WG

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64 % 24 % 11 % Approved In Review Unknown

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Submitted in January

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No Fun

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Future?

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Think of it as a guided, collaborative combination of caniuse.com quirksmode.org all those independet support tables

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• identify and ﬁx legal issues (who owns tests) • moving to github in progress • extract meta data from speciﬁcations for test coverage analysis and linking

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• centralize test efforts across WGs • run tests in cloud and collect data • to build compatibility tables • show browser support in speciﬁcations, WebPlatform.org, anywhere

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• use github for reviewing test suites • integrate adding tests into WebPlatform.org • make submitting bugs off a test dead simple • painless local development environment

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They‘re working on it!

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Motivation?

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your tests are run by W3C and browser vendors

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collected data === articles, workshops, talks

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insights into speciﬁcations & credibility for mailing lists

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You are part of the web, start caring for it!

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When the web is not doing what you want it to, ﬁght back, WRITE TESTS! Me, I think

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Recap • if you write tests, use the W3C Infrastructure, avoid proprietary things • don‘t wait for W3C to get their testing sorted completely, have some fun now* * good for HTML5 APIs already!