LayoutTests/canvas/philip/tests/2d.text.draw.space.collapse.nonspace.html is against the spec

• Component: Canvas
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Rashmi Shyamasundar]

The layout test - LayoutTests/canvas/philip/tests/2d.text.draw.space.collapse.nonspace.html, is against the spec.

According to the below points in spec :-

1. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#text-preparation-algorithm 
2. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#space-character 

Only 4 space characters listed below should be replaced with U+0020
1. U+0009
2. U+000A
3. U+000C
4. U+000D

But, this test case is expecting that U+000B should also be replaced with U+0020.

Currently this test case passing on WebKit, since we are replacing U+000B with U+0020. So, both the implementation and the test case needs to be corrected.

[Rashmi Shyamasundar]

I am trying to fix the implementation as part of patch to the bug - 

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108881

[Rashmi Shyamasundar]

There is a bug on W3C for the same test case :-

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15925

And, the proposed patch in this W3C bug is to :-

replace the line
      "ctx.fillText('E\x0b EE', -150, 37.5);"

with 
      "ctx.fillText('E\x0b EE', -100, 37.5);"

[Chris Dumez]

How do other browsers (Firefox 23 / IE10) behave?

[Chris Dumez]

(In reply to comment #3)
> How do other browsers (Firefox 23 / IE10) behave?

The test passes on Firefox 23, WebKit and Blink.

It fails on IE10 but apparently due to lack of support:
"Aborted with exception: Object doesn't support property or method 'getContext'"

So it seems Chrome / Safari / Firefox and currently in sync. I would not change our behavior despite what the specification says.

[Rashmi Shyamasundar]

According to this draft spec - http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#space-character , U+000B is an undefined Unicode character and its usage should result in a parse error.

Extracted from the above link :-

Any occurrences of any characters in the ranges U+0001 to U+0008, U+000E to U+001F, U+007F to U+009F, U+FDD0 to U+FDEF, and characters U+000B, U+FFFE, U+FFFF, U+1FFFE, U+1FFFF, U+2FFFE, U+2FFFF, U+3FFFE, U+3FFFF, U+4FFFE, U+4FFFF, U+5FFFE, U+5FFFF, U+6FFFE, U+6FFFF, U+7FFFE, U+7FFFF, U+8FFFE, U+8FFFF, U+9FFFE, U+9FFFF, U+AFFFE, U+AFFFF, U+BFFFE, U+BFFFF, U+CFFFE, U+CFFFF, U+DFFFE, U+DFFFF, U+EFFFE, U+EFFFF, U+FFFFE, U+FFFFF, U+10FFFE, and U+10FFFF are parse errors. These are all control characters or permanently undefined Unicode characters (noncharacters).

[Ian 'Hixie' Hickson]

This test seems bogus to me -- how do you know what the font will draw U+000B as?

A better test would be something like comparing these two calls:

   ctx.fillText("E \x0b E", ...
   ctx.fillText("E E", ...

...to see if the two spaces collapse into one.

There should probably also be a separate test that checks the text in:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space-processing

...saying that control characters in general should be ignored...

[Rashmi Shyamasundar]

As discussed with Mr. Christophe Dumez :-

The test passes on Chrome / Safari and Firefox. Our behavior should be in sync with others, despite what the specification says.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

We deleted this test suit from LayoutTests a while ago.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

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