The old loadSettings.js was a way of customizing settings upon load, because
the Settings module did not offer this functionality. But it did not work well,
since all the default settings were not loaded.
Let's get rid of loadSettings.js for the bulk of the tests (the "backend"
specs). For the "container" specs, we'll keep it in place until/if we rewrite
Settings.js making it less brittle.
This is allowed starting from fc661ee13a ("core: allow URL parameters and POST
bodies to co-exist"), which landed in Etherpad 1.8.0. For the discussion, see
issue #3568.
Note by muxator:
This commit introduced a copied & modified version of the testing files
loadSettings.js and pad.js.
It's Christmas night, and we want to shipt this feature, so I merged it anyway,
adding a note in both the original and copied files so that hopefully someone
in the distant future is going to merge them back again.
In the following commits Pierre is going to copy & modify some files.
This commit prepares the source files in order to minimize those differences,
so we can re-unify them as soon as possible.
No functional changes.
This commit replaces an old test with a new, different one.
Reasons for removing the old test:
- the old list test was introduced in cadb83a with an explicit attempt to import
an invalid HTML and see if it could recover from it
- in 5967e08 the code base finally managed to export a meaningful HTML (but we
do not know if other bugs were introduced in pursuing this)
- the old test seemed to aim at attaining resiliency, but correctness should be
addressed before that
Modified by muxator. See discussion in:
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/pull/3268#issuecomment-411185713
