Meta: link to web-platform-tests (in header?)

[foolip]

Other WHATWG standards link to their web-platform-tests directories prominently in their headers, see https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ or https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/ for examples.

We should link to at least these directories and labels:

• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/2dcontext
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/custom-elements
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/eventsource
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/html
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/imagebitmap-renderingcontext
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/innerText
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/offscreen-canvas
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/shadow-dom
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/webmessaging
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/websockets
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/webstorage
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/workers

Not sure about:

• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/conformance-checkers ( @sideshowbarker?)
• https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/html-imports (@domenic?)

That's a lot of directories, too many to link to in the header?

The "use case" is two-fold:

• Advertising that web care about the test suites.
• If (almost) all specs link to their test suites, one can begin to write tooling that makes sure that every spec out there has a test suite, and that everything in wpt corresponds to some spec. (But yes, such a mapping could be maintained elsewhere.)

Related: #3010
Slightly related: #354

[domenic]

So, I thought that https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/html 's readme would link to all those other directories. I guess it does not. But I would have thought we'd link to just the central one and then the readme would direct people to the others.

Definitely no linking to HTML imports tests.

[sideshowbarker]

https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/conformance-checkers ( @sideshowbarker?)

It’s not important to link to that one, so let’s please omit it. There’s plenty enough others already…

[foolip]

I thought that https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/html 's readme would link to all those other directories

That would make sense, we could just link to the README, and that could link to the other directories and a search for all of the labels.

Definitely no linking to HTML imports tests.

Should those tests be removed entirely? Is there an open issue somewhere?

[annevk]

Last time I tried to ditch all things HTML Imports (mostly the draft) @dominiccooney got a little upset, iirc. Not sure if that changed.

[zcorpan]

(Edited OP to add innerText.)

[annevk]

We should also add shadow-dom.

[zcorpan]

Done, here and web-platform-tests/wpt#7309