810924 - Alter mochitest template to reduce intermittent-orange footgun potential

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 823120

(Testing :: Mochitest, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Broken out from bug 809318...

(In reply to Phil Ringnalda (:philor) from bug 809318 comment #0)
> This failure brought to you by the foolish way that the mochitest template
> encourages you to have an iframe whose onload you use to trigger your test,
> *before* the script where you define what the onload calls, which then fails
> intermittently because nobody ever promised you that an iframe will delay
> firing onload until after some later script is evaluated.

We should alter the template to avoid future instances like this.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I still can't believe that people use the templates, but yeah, we should fix that.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Guess the dependency goes the other way, since bug 823120 wound up fixing the template.