Bug 301602 – [ iOS 26 ] imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest.html is a constant text failure

• Status: NEW
• Component: New Bugs

[Bryan Medina]

imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest.html

is a constant text failure on iOS26 after new OS 26 bringup on OpenSource.

HISTORY:
https://results.webkit.org/?suite=layout-tests&test=imported%2Fw3c%2Fweb-platform-tests%2Finert%2Finert-pseudo-element-hittest.html

TEXT DIFF:
--- /Volumes/Data/worker/Apple-iOS-26-Simulator-Release-WK2-Tests/build/layout-test-results/imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest-expected.txt
+++ /Volumes/Data/worker/Apple-iOS-26-Simulator-Release-WK2-Tests/build/layout-test-results/imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest-actual.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 
 
 PASS Hit-testing cannot reach pseudo elements of inert nodes
-FAIL Hit-testing can reach pseudo elements of non-inert nodes assert_array_equals: target got all events lengths differ, expected array ["mousedown", "mouseenter", "mousemove", "mouseover", "pointerdown", "pointerenter", "pointermove", "pointerover"] length 8, got ["pointerdown", "pointerenter", "pointerover"] length 3
+FAIL Hit-testing can reach pseudo elements of non-inert nodes assert_array_equals: target got all events lengths differ, expected array ["mousedown", "mouseenter", "mousemove", "mouseover", "pointerdown", "pointerenter", "pointermove", "pointerover"] length 8, got [] length 0
 
TEXT DIFF URL:
https://build.webkit.org/results/Apple-iOS-26-Simulator-Release-WK2-Tests/302258@main%20(58)/imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest-diff.txt

REPRODUCIBILITY:
I was able to reproduce the text failure locally on my device running iOS 16 Release ToT using the command
rub-webkit-tests imported/w3c/web-platform-tests/inert/inert-pseudo-element-hittest.html --ios-simulator --iterations=50 --force

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/163603257>

[Bryan Medina]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/53114

[EWS]

Test gardening commit 302267@main (df5c7e2c96ee): <https://commits.webkit.org/302267@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #53114 and removing active labels.