Patent ID: 8996988
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method in a computer system to identify visual discrepancies in a web page as rendered by a plurality of browsers, the method comprising: designating one of the plurality browsers as a reference browser; for each browser, for each element in the ordered list of elements constructed from the DOM generated by the reference browser, when the first edge of the third element is determined not to be substantially collinear with the first edge of the fourth element, generating a discrepancy record identifying a difference in collinearity between the first and second elements of the ordered list of elements constructed from the DOM generated by the reference browser and the third and fourth elements of the ordered list of elements constructed from the DOM generated by the selected browser; and based on the comparison, generating a report of the visual discrepancies in the web page as rendered by the reference browser and each other browser, wherein code implementing the method is stored in memory of the computer system for execution by a processor of the computer system.