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Why Bloom?

I enjoy working with Jasmine to spec out my projects, however, I have so far not been happy with the html output of spec results.

• The expended output seems too boxy with many hard border blocks.
• Also the colors seem to "scream" at me.

Considering I have to stare are the spec results constantly during my development cycles, I need something a little less overpowering. The output needs to point out any failing spec yet be easy to read.

Another reason why I needed bloom is that while creating and working with jasmine-aroma, I have realized that there is some additional context attached to aroma specs which cannot be easily surfaced in the default reporter.

Enter bloom.

At this point my primary focus is to create an html reporter that:

1. outputs results with a less boxy look
2. outputs results with sensible styles that make use of the meta data in aroma specs/suites
3. is just as easy to restyle as the default reporter

Known issues/limitations

1. No console reporting available yet.
2. Not exhaustively tested on multiple browsers/platforms
3. Does not render well enough on IE

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Design notes and ideas