web-platform-tests/wpt

Support multiple META lines for cases where we accept multiple values

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#10,603 opened on Apr 24, 2018

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Description

In particular, the global key: http://web-platform-tests.org/writing-tests/testharness.html#multi-global-tests . Code for that was added in #6792; the multi-line approach was added in #10599.

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Review the implementation in PR #6792 and the multi line approach in #10599. Understand how the `global` key is currently parsed and how multiple META lines are handled. Look at the testharness.js source code related to META parsing.
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javascript
Domain
testing
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Feature
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2
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Half day
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Active
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Mostly clear
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GitUnderstanding of web platform tests and META lines
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60