[rspec-users] I want RSpec for CSS layout.

[Joseph Wilk]

I do some CSS testing through selenium and screw-unit-server.
Mainly checking what the style properties of certain dom elements are 
after executing some JavaScript.

I use selenium-grid to invoke the different browsers.

Defining what is 'correct' seems a big difficulty.

Sometimes a little variation in rendering is ok and in other designs it 
breaks everything!

I've been playing with the idea of inspecting the position of elements 
in a page from the dom and using this to generate a SVG layout style 
document. I'm thinking more position rather than colours/fonts. At 
somepoint when I'm happy with the design I can generate this SVG and 
then check against this to see if the layout matches as things change.

Nice thing about SVG is that its easy to change and has a visual 
representation to be inspected. The SVG becomes like the spec.

my two cents.
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Joseph Wilk
http://www.joesniff.co.uk


Scott Taylor wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Dan North wrote:
> 
>> ooh, that would be lovely.
>>
>> LayoutBehave anyone?
>>
> 
> Well, I don't see why there couldn't be one, assuming there was a CSS
> parser out there.
> 
> I've started a treetop CSS2 parser, but just don't have the time to
> devote to it.  Anyone interested?
> 
> Scott

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