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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
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Adding upstream version 124.0.1.upstream/124.0.1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'toolkit/components/narrate/test')
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs150
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser.toml20
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate.js146
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_disable.js43
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_language.js99
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_toggle.js37
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_voiceselect.js139
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_word_highlight.js76
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/head.js86
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/inferno.html238
-rw-r--r--toolkit/components/narrate/test/moby_dick.html218
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diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92d88e8e3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+import { ContentTaskUtils } from "resource://testing-common/ContentTaskUtils.sys.mjs";
+import { Preferences } from "resource://gre/modules/Preferences.sys.mjs";
+import { setTimeout } from "resource://gre/modules/Timer.sys.mjs";
+
+export var NarrateTestUtils = {
+ TOGGLE: ".narrate-toggle",
+ POPUP: ".narrate-dropdown .dropdown-popup",
+ VOICE_SELECT: ".narrate-voices .select-toggle",
+ VOICE_OPTIONS: ".narrate-voices .options",
+ VOICE_SELECTED: ".narrate-voices .options .option.selected",
+ VOICE_SELECT_LABEL: ".narrate-voices .select-toggle .current-voice",
+ RATE: ".narrate-rate-input",
+ START: ".narrate-dropdown:not(.speaking) .narrate-start-stop",
+ STOP: ".narrate-dropdown.speaking .narrate-start-stop",
+ BACK: ".narrate-skip-previous",
+ FORWARD: ".narrate-skip-next",
+
+ isVisible(element) {
+ let win = element.ownerGlobal;
+ let style = win.getComputedStyle(element);
+ if (style.display == "none") {
+ return false;
+ }
+ if (style.visibility != "visible") {
+ return false;
+ }
+ if (win.XULPopupElement.isInstance(element) && element.state != "open") {
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ // Hiding a parent element will hide all its children
+ if (element.parentNode != element.ownerDocument) {
+ return this.isVisible(element.parentNode);
+ }
+
+ return true;
+ },
+
+ isStoppedState(window, ok) {
+ let $ = window.document.querySelector.bind(window.document);
+ ok($(this.BACK).disabled, "back button is disabled");
+ ok($(this.FORWARD).disabled, "forward button is disabled");
+ ok(!!$(this.START), "start button is showing");
+ ok(!$(this.STOP), "stop button is hidden");
+ // This checks for a localized label. Not the best...
+ ok($(this.START).title == "Start (N)", "Button tooltip is correct");
+ },
+
+ isStartedState(window, ok) {
+ let $ = window.document.querySelector.bind(window.document);
+ ok(!$(this.BACK).disabled, "back button is enabled");
+ ok(!$(this.FORWARD).disabled, "forward button is enabled");
+ ok(!$(this.START), "start button is hidden");
+ ok(!!$(this.STOP), "stop button is showing");
+ // This checks for a localized label. Not the best...
+ ok($(this.STOP).title == "Stop (N)", "Button tooltip is correct");
+ },
+
+ selectVoice(window, voiceUri) {
+ if (!this.isVisible(window.document.querySelector(this.VOICE_OPTIONS))) {
+ window.document.querySelector(this.VOICE_SELECT).click();
+ }
+
+ let voiceOption = window.document.querySelector(
+ `.narrate-voices .option[data-value="${voiceUri}"]`
+ );
+
+ voiceOption.focus();
+ voiceOption.click();
+
+ return voiceOption.classList.contains("selected");
+ },
+
+ getEventUtils(window) {
+ let eventUtils = {
+ _EU_Ci: Ci,
+ _EU_Cc: Cc,
+ window,
+ setTimeout,
+ parent: window,
+ navigator: window.navigator,
+ KeyboardEvent: window.KeyboardEvent,
+ KeyEvent: window.KeyEvent,
+ };
+ Services.scriptloader.loadSubScript(
+ "chrome://mochikit/content/tests/SimpleTest/EventUtils.js",
+ eventUtils
+ );
+ return eventUtils;
+ },
+
+ getReaderReadyPromise(window) {
+ return new Promise(resolve => {
+ function observeReady(subject, topic) {
+ if (subject == window) {
+ Services.obs.removeObserver(observeReady, topic);
+ resolve();
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (window.document.body.classList.contains("loaded")) {
+ resolve();
+ } else {
+ Services.obs.addObserver(observeReady, "AboutReader:Ready");
+ }
+ });
+ },
+
+ waitForNarrateToggle(window) {
+ let toggle = window.document.querySelector(this.TOGGLE);
+ return ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(() => !toggle.hidden, "");
+ },
+
+ waitForPrefChange(pref) {
+ return new Promise(resolve => {
+ function observeChange() {
+ Services.prefs.removeObserver(pref, observeChange);
+ resolve(Preferences.get(pref));
+ }
+
+ Services.prefs.addObserver(pref, observeChange);
+ });
+ },
+
+ sendBoundaryEvent(window, name, charIndex, charLength) {
+ let detail = { type: "boundary", args: { name, charIndex, charLength } };
+ window.dispatchEvent(new window.CustomEvent("testsynthevent", { detail }));
+ },
+
+ isWordHighlightGone(window, ok) {
+ let $ = window.document.querySelector.bind(window.document);
+ ok(!$(".narrate-word-highlight"), "No more word highlights exist");
+ },
+
+ getWordHighlights(window) {
+ let $$ = window.document.querySelectorAll.bind(window.document);
+ let nodes = Array.from($$(".narrate-word-highlight"));
+ return nodes.map(node => {
+ return {
+ word: node.dataset.word,
+ left: Number(node.style.left.replace(/px$/, "")),
+ top: Number(node.style.top.replace(/px$/, "")),
+ };
+ });
+ },
+};
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser.toml b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71257b79bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+support-files = [
+ "head.js",
+ "NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs",
+ "moby_dick.html"
+]
+
+["browser_narrate.js"]
+skip-if = ["os == 'linux' && !debug"] # Bug 1776050
+
+["browser_narrate_disable.js"]
+
+["browser_narrate_language.js"]
+support-files = ["inferno.html"]
+
+["browser_narrate_toggle.js"]
+
+["browser_voiceselect.js"]
+
+["browser_word_highlight.js"]
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..df76743d2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate.js
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+registerCleanupFunction(teardown);
+
+add_task(async function testNarrate() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let TEST_VOICE = "urn:moz-tts:fake:teresa";
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ let popup = $(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP);
+ ok(!NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup is initially hidden");
+
+ let toggle = $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE);
+ toggle.click();
+
+ ok(NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup toggled");
+
+ let voiceOptions = $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS);
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(voiceOptions),
+ "voice options are initially hidden"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECT).click();
+ ok(NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(voiceOptions), "voice options pop up");
+
+ let prefChanged = NarrateTestUtils.waitForPrefChange("narrate.voice");
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.selectVoice(content, TEST_VOICE),
+ "test voice selected"
+ );
+ await prefChanged;
+
+ ok(!NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(voiceOptions), "voice options hidden again");
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+
+ let promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.START).click();
+ let speechinfo = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ is(speechinfo.voice, TEST_VOICE, "correct voice is being used");
+ let paragraph = speechinfo.paragraph;
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.FORWARD).click();
+ speechinfo = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ is(speechinfo.voice, TEST_VOICE, "same voice is used");
+ isnot(speechinfo.paragraph, paragraph, "next paragraph is being spoken");
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.BACK).click();
+ speechinfo = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ is(speechinfo.paragraph, paragraph, "first paragraph being spoken");
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ paragraph = speechinfo.paragraph;
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.STOP).click();
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => !$(NarrateTestUtils.STOP),
+ "transitioned to stopped state"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.START).click();
+ speechinfo = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ is(speechinfo.paragraph, paragraph, "read same paragraph again");
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ let eventUtils = NarrateTestUtils.getEventUtils(content);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ prefChanged = NarrateTestUtils.waitForPrefChange("narrate.rate");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.RATE).focus();
+ eventUtils.sendKey("UP", content);
+ let newspeechinfo = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ is(newspeechinfo.paragraph, speechinfo.paragraph, "same paragraph");
+ isnot(newspeechinfo.rate, speechinfo.rate, "rate changed");
+ await prefChanged;
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphend");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.STOP).click();
+ await promiseEvent;
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => !$(NarrateTestUtils.STOP),
+ "transitioned to stopped state"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "scroll");
+ content.scrollBy(0, 10);
+ await promiseEvent;
+ ok(!NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup is hidden after scroll");
+
+ toggle.click();
+ ok(NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup is toggled again");
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.START).click();
+ await promiseEvent;
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "scroll");
+ content.scrollBy(0, -10);
+ await promiseEvent;
+ ok(NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup stays visible after scroll");
+
+ toggle.click();
+ ok(!NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup is dismissed while speaking");
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ // Go forward all the way to the end of the article. We should eventually
+ // stop.
+ do {
+ promiseEvent = Promise.race([
+ ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart"),
+ ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphsdone"),
+ ]);
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.FORWARD).click();
+ } while ((await promiseEvent).type == "paragraphstart");
+
+ // This is to make sure we are not actively scrolling when the tab closes.
+ content.scroll(0, 0);
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => !$(NarrateTestUtils.STOP),
+ "transitioned to stopped state"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_disable.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_disable.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5097006c3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_disable.js
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+const ENABLE_PREF = "narrate.enabled";
+
+registerCleanupFunction(() => {
+ clearUserPref(ENABLE_PREF);
+ teardown();
+});
+
+add_task(async function testNarratePref() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, function () {
+ is(
+ content.document.querySelectorAll(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).length,
+ 1,
+ "narrate is inserted by default"
+ );
+ });
+
+ setBoolPref(ENABLE_PREF, false);
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, function () {
+ ok(
+ !content.document.querySelector(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE),
+ "narrate is disabled and is not in reader mode"
+ );
+ });
+
+ setBoolPref(ENABLE_PREF, true);
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, function () {
+ is(
+ content.document.querySelectorAll(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).length,
+ 1,
+ "narrate is re-enabled and appears only once"
+ );
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_language.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_language.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4fcb79f49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_language.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+registerCleanupFunction(teardown);
+
+add_task(async function testVoiceselectDropdownAutoclose() {
+ setup("automatic", true);
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ ok(
+ !!$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:bob']"),
+ "Jamaican English voice available"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !!$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:lenny']"),
+ "Canadian English voice available"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !!$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:amy']"),
+ "British English voice available"
+ );
+
+ ok(
+ !$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:celine']"),
+ "Canadian French voice unavailable"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:julie']"),
+ "Mexican Spanish voice unavailable"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "popup is toggled"
+ );
+
+ let prefChanged = NarrateTestUtils.waitForPrefChange(
+ "narrate.voice",
+ "getCharPref"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.selectVoice(content, "urn:moz-tts:fake:lenny");
+ let voicePref = JSON.parse(await prefChanged);
+ is(voicePref.en, "urn:moz-tts:fake:lenny", "pref set correctly");
+ });
+});
+
+add_task(async function testVoiceselectDropdownAutoclose() {
+ setup("automatic", true);
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ITALIAN_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ ok(
+ !!$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:zanetta']"),
+ "Italian voice available"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !!$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:margherita']"),
+ "Italian voice available"
+ );
+
+ ok(
+ !$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:bob']"),
+ "Jamaican English voice available"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:celine']"),
+ "Canadian French voice unavailable"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !$(".option[data-value='urn:moz-tts:fake:julie']"),
+ "Mexican Spanish voice unavailable"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "popup is toggled"
+ );
+
+ let prefChanged = NarrateTestUtils.waitForPrefChange(
+ "narrate.voice",
+ "getCharPref"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.selectVoice(content, "urn:moz-tts:fake:zanetta");
+ let voicePref = JSON.parse(await prefChanged);
+ is(voicePref.it, "urn:moz-tts:fake:zanetta", "pref set correctly");
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_toggle.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_toggle.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54de276001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_narrate_toggle.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain.
+ * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ */
+"use strict";
+
+// This test verifies that the keyboard shortcut "n" will Start/Stop the
+// narration of an article in readermode when the article is in focus.
+
+registerCleanupFunction(teardown);
+
+add_task(async function testToggleNarrate() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ let eventUtils = NarrateTestUtils.getEventUtils(content);
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).focus();
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("n", {}, content);
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStartedState(content, ok);
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).focus();
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("n", {}, content);
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => !$(NarrateTestUtils.STOP),
+ "transitioned to stopped state"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_voiceselect.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_voiceselect.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f6c59e3a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_voiceselect.js
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+registerCleanupFunction(teardown);
+
+add_task(async function testVoiceselectDropdownAutoclose() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "popup is toggled"
+ );
+
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options are initially hidden"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECT).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options are toggled"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ // A focus will follow a real click.
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).focus();
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "narrate popup is dismissed"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ // A focus will follow a real click.
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).focus();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "narrate popup is showing again"
+ );
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options are hidden after popup comes back"
+ );
+ });
+});
+
+add_task(async function testVoiceselectLabelChange() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "popup is toggled"
+ );
+
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.selectVoice(content, "urn:moz-tts:fake:lenny"),
+ "voice selected"
+ );
+
+ let selectedOption = $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECTED);
+ let selectLabel = $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECT_LABEL);
+
+ is(
+ selectedOption.textContent,
+ selectLabel.textContent,
+ "new label matches selected voice"
+ );
+ });
+});
+
+add_task(async function testVoiceselectKeyboard() {
+ setup();
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE).click();
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP)),
+ "popup is toggled"
+ );
+
+ let eventUtils = NarrateTestUtils.getEventUtils(content);
+
+ let firstValue = $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECTED).dataset.value;
+
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options initially are hidden"
+ );
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECT).focus();
+
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("KEY_ArrowDown", {}, content);
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECTED).dataset.value != firstValue,
+ "value changed after pressing ArrowDown key"
+ );
+
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("KEY_Enter", {}, content);
+
+ ok(
+ NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options showing after pressing Enter"
+ );
+
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("KEY_ArrowUp", {}, content);
+
+ eventUtils.synthesizeKey("KEY_Enter", {}, content);
+
+ ok(
+ !NarrateTestUtils.isVisible($(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_OPTIONS)),
+ "voice options hidden after pressing Enter"
+ );
+
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => $(NarrateTestUtils.VOICE_SELECTED).dataset.value == firstValue,
+ "value changed back to original after pressing Enter"
+ );
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_word_highlight.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_word_highlight.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..709fd06a2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/browser_word_highlight.js
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+registerCleanupFunction(teardown);
+
+add_task(async function testNarrate() {
+ setup("urn:moz-tts:fake:teresa");
+
+ await spawnInNewReaderTab(TEST_ARTICLE, async function () {
+ let $ = content.document.querySelector.bind(content.document);
+
+ await NarrateTestUtils.waitForNarrateToggle(content);
+
+ let popup = $(NarrateTestUtils.POPUP);
+ ok(!NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup is initially hidden");
+
+ let toggle = $(NarrateTestUtils.TOGGLE);
+ toggle.click();
+
+ ok(NarrateTestUtils.isVisible(popup), "popup toggled");
+
+ NarrateTestUtils.isStoppedState(content, ok);
+
+ let promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.START).click();
+ let voice = (await promiseEvent).detail.voice;
+ is(voice, "urn:moz-tts:fake:teresa", "double-check voice");
+
+ // Skip forward to first paragraph.
+ let details;
+ do {
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "paragraphstart");
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.FORWARD).click();
+ details = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ } while (details.tag != "p");
+
+ let boundaryPat = /(\S+)/g;
+ let position = { left: 0, top: 0 };
+ let text = details.paragraph;
+ for (let res = boundaryPat.exec(text); res; res = boundaryPat.exec(text)) {
+ promiseEvent = ContentTaskUtils.waitForEvent(content, "wordhighlight");
+ NarrateTestUtils.sendBoundaryEvent(
+ content,
+ "word",
+ res.index,
+ res[0].length
+ );
+ let { start, end } = (await promiseEvent).detail;
+ let nodes = NarrateTestUtils.getWordHighlights(content);
+ for (let node of nodes) {
+ // Since this is English we can assume each word is to the right or
+ // below the previous one.
+ ok(
+ node.left > position.left || node.top > position.top,
+ "highlight position is moving"
+ );
+ position = { left: node.left, top: node.top };
+ }
+ let wordFromOffset = text.substring(start, end);
+ // XXX: Each node should contain the part of the word it highlights.
+ // Right now, each node contains the entire word.
+ let wordFromHighlight = nodes[0].word;
+ is(wordFromOffset, wordFromHighlight, "Correct word is highlighted");
+ }
+
+ $(NarrateTestUtils.STOP).click();
+ await ContentTaskUtils.waitForCondition(
+ () => !$(NarrateTestUtils.STOP),
+ "transitioned to stopped state"
+ );
+ NarrateTestUtils.isWordHighlightGone(content, ok);
+ });
+});
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/head.js b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/head.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79fa77385e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/head.js
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+/* exported teardown, setup, toggleExtension,
+ spawnInNewReaderTab, TEST_ARTICLE, TEST_ITALIAN_ARTICLE */
+
+"use strict";
+
+const TEST_ARTICLE =
+ "http://example.com/browser/toolkit/components/narrate/test/moby_dick.html";
+
+const TEST_ITALIAN_ARTICLE =
+ "http://example.com/browser/toolkit/components/narrate/test/inferno.html";
+
+ChromeUtils.defineESModuleGetters(this, {
+ AddonManager: "resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.sys.mjs",
+});
+
+const TEST_PREFS = {
+ "reader.parse-on-load.enabled": true,
+ "media.webspeech.synth.enabled": true,
+ "media.webspeech.synth.test": true,
+ "narrate.enabled": true,
+ "narrate.test": true,
+ "narrate.voice": null,
+ "narrate.filter-voices": false,
+};
+
+function setup(voiceUri = "automatic", filterVoices = false) {
+ let prefs = Object.assign({}, TEST_PREFS, {
+ "narrate.filter-voices": filterVoices,
+ "narrate.voice": JSON.stringify({ en: voiceUri }),
+ });
+
+ // Set required test prefs.
+ Object.entries(prefs).forEach(([name, value]) => {
+ switch (typeof value) {
+ case "boolean":
+ setBoolPref(name, value);
+ break;
+ case "string":
+ setCharPref(name, value);
+ break;
+ }
+ });
+}
+
+function teardown() {
+ // Reset test prefs.
+ Object.entries(TEST_PREFS).forEach(pref => {
+ clearUserPref(pref[0]);
+ });
+}
+
+function spawnInNewReaderTab(url, func) {
+ return BrowserTestUtils.withNewTab(
+ { gBrowser, url: `about:reader?url=${encodeURIComponent(url)}` },
+ async function (browser) {
+ // This imports the test utils for all tests, so we'll declare it as
+ // a global here which will make it ESLint happy.
+ /* global NarrateTestUtils */
+ SpecialPowers.addTaskImport(
+ "NarrateTestUtils",
+ "chrome://mochitests/content/browser/" +
+ "toolkit/components/narrate/test/NarrateTestUtils.sys.mjs"
+ );
+ await SpecialPowers.spawn(browser, [], async function () {
+ await NarrateTestUtils.getReaderReadyPromise(content);
+ });
+ await SpecialPowers.spawn(browser, [], func);
+ }
+ );
+}
+
+function setBoolPref(name, value) {
+ Services.prefs.setBoolPref(name, value);
+}
+
+function setCharPref(name, value) {
+ Services.prefs.setCharPref(name, value);
+}
+
+function clearUserPref(name) {
+ Services.prefs.clearUserPref(name);
+}
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/inferno.html b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/inferno.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..58dfd24df1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/inferno.html
@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+ <title>Inferno - Canto I</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <h1>Inferno</h1>
+ <h2>Canto I: Dante nella selva oscura</h2>
+ <p>
+ Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita<br>
+ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,<br>
+ ché la diritta via era smarrita.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura<br>
+ esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte<br>
+ che nel pensier rinova la paura!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Tant' è amara che poco è più morte;<br>
+ ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,<br>
+ dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Io non so ben ridir com' i' v'intrai,<br>
+ tant' era pien di sonno a quel punto<br>
+ che la verace via abbandonai.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ma poi ch'i' fui al piè d'un colle giunto,<br>
+ là dove terminava quella valle<br>
+ che m'avea di paura il cor compunto,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle<br>
+ vestite già de' raggi del pianeta<br>
+ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Allor fu la paura un poco queta,<br>
+ che nel lago del cor m'era durata<br>
+ la notte ch'i' passai con tanta pieta.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ E come quei che con lena affannata,<br>
+ uscito fuor del pelago a la riva,<br>
+ si volge a l'acqua perigliosa e guata,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ così l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,<br>
+ si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo<br>
+ che non lasciò già mai persona viva.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Poi ch'èi posato un poco il corpo lasso,<br>
+ ripresi via per la piaggia diserta,<br>
+ sì che 'l piè fermo sempre era 'l più basso.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta,<br>
+ una lonza leggiera e presta molto,<br>
+ che di pel macolato era coverta;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,<br>
+ anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,<br>
+ ch'i' fui per ritornar più volte vòlto.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Temp' era dal principio del mattino,<br>
+ e 'l sol montava 'n sù con quelle stelle<br>
+ ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ mosse di prima quelle cose belle;<br>
+ sì ch'a bene sperar m'era cagione<br>
+ di quella fiera a la gaetta pelle
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ l'ora del tempo e la dolce stagione;<br>
+ ma non sì che paura non mi desse<br>
+ la vista che m'apparve d'un leone.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Questi parea che contra me venisse<br>
+ con la test' alta e con rabbiosa fame,<br>
+ sì che parea che l'aere ne tremesse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame<br>
+ sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza,<br>
+ e molte genti fé già viver grame,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ questa mi porse tanto di gravezza<br>
+ con la paura ch'uscia di sua vista,<br>
+ ch'io perdei la speranza de l'altezza.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ E qual è quei che volontieri acquista,<br>
+ e giugne 'l tempo che perder lo face,<br>
+ che 'n tutti suoi pensier piange e s'attrista;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace,<br>
+ che, venendomi 'ncontro, a poco a poco<br>
+ mi ripigneva là dove 'l sol tace.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Mentre ch'i' rovinava in basso loco,<br>
+ dinanzi a li occhi mi si fu offerto<br>
+ chi per lungo silenzio parea fioco.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto,<br>
+ «<em>Miserere</em> di me», gridai a lui,<br>
+ «qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!».
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Rispuosemi: «Non omo, omo già fui,<br>
+ e li parenti miei furon lombardi,<br>
+ mantoani per patrïa ambedui.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Nacqui <em>sub Iulio</em>, ancor che fosse tardi,<br>
+ e vissi a Roma sotto 'l buono Augusto<br>
+ nel tempo de li dèi falsi e bugiardi.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto<br>
+ figliuol d'Anchise che venne di Troia,<br>
+ poi che 'l superbo Ilïón fu combusto.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ma tu perché ritorni a tanta noia?<br>
+ perché non sali il dilettoso monte<br>
+ ch'è principio e cagion di tutta gioia?».
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ «Or se' tu quel Virgilio e quella fonte<br>
+ che spandi di parlar sì largo fiume?»,<br>
+ rispuos' io lui con vergognosa fronte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ «O de li altri poeti onore e lume,<br>
+ vagliami 'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore<br>
+ che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore,<br>
+ tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi<br>
+ lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Vedi la bestia per cu' io mi volsi;<br>
+ aiutami da lei, famoso saggio,<br>
+ ch'ella mi fa tremar le vene e i polsi».
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ «A te convien tenere altro vïaggio»,<br>
+ rispuose, poi che lagrimar mi vide,<br>
+ «se vuo' campar d'esto loco selvaggio;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ ché questa bestia, per la qual tu gride,<br>
+ non lascia altrui passar per la sua via,<br>
+ ma tanto lo 'mpedisce che l'uccide;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ e ha natura sì malvagia e ria,<br>
+ che mai non empie la bramosa voglia,<br>
+ e dopo 'l pasto ha più fame che pria.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia,<br>
+ e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro<br>
+ verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Questi non ciberà terra né peltro,<br>
+ ma sapïenza, amore e virtute,<br>
+ e sua nazion sarà tra feltro e feltro.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Di quella umile Italia fia salute<br>
+ per cui morì la vergine Cammilla,<br>
+ Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Questi la caccerà per ogne villa,<br>
+ fin che l'avrà rimessa ne lo 'nferno,<br>
+ là onde 'nvidia prima dipartilla.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Ond' io per lo tuo me' penso e discerno<br>
+ che tu mi segui, e io sarò tua guida,<br>
+ e trarrotti di qui per loco etterno;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ ove udirai le disperate strida,<br>
+ vedrai li antichi spiriti dolenti,<br>
+ ch'a la seconda morte ciascun grida;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ e vederai color che son contenti<br>
+ nel foco, perché speran di venire<br>
+ quando che sia a le beate genti.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A le quai poi se tu vorrai salire,<br>
+ anima fia a ciò più di me degna:<br>
+ con lei ti lascerò nel mio partire;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ ché quello imperador che là sù regna,<br>
+ perch' i' fu' ribellante a la sua legge,<br>
+ non vuol che 'n sua città per me si vegna.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In tutte parti impera e quivi regge;<br>
+ quivi è la sua città e l'alto seggio:<br>
+ oh felice colui cu' ivi elegge!».
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ E io a lui: «Poeta, io ti richeggio<br>
+ per quello Dio che tu non conoscesti,<br>
+ a ciò ch'io fugga questo male e peggio,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ che tu mi meni là dov' or dicesti,<br>
+ sì ch'io veggia la porta di san Pietro<br>
+ e color cui tu fai cotanto mesti».
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Allor si mosse, e io li tenni dietro.
+ </p>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/toolkit/components/narrate/test/moby_dick.html b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/moby_dick.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0beaa20fd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/narrate/test/moby_dick.html
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Moby Dick - Chapter 1. Loomings</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <h1>Moby Dick</h1>
+ <h2>Chapter 1. Loomings</h2>
+ <p>
+ Call me Ishmael. <span>Some <span>years</span></span> ago—never mind how
+ long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
+ to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the
+ watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and
+ regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the
+ mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find
+ myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the
+ rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an
+ upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me
+ from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking
+ people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I
+ can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical
+ flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
+ There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in
+ their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings
+ towards the ocean with me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves
+ as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf.
+ Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is
+ the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by
+ breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the
+ crowds of water-gazers there.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears
+ Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do
+ you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand
+ thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some
+ leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking
+ over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as
+ if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all
+ landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters,
+ nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green
+ fields gone? What do they here?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and
+ seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the
+ extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder
+ warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as
+ they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of
+ them—leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys,
+ streets and avenues—north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all
+ unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses
+ of all those ships attract them thither?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take
+ almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale,
+ and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let
+ the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand
+ that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead
+ you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be
+ athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan
+ happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one
+ knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest,
+ quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of
+ the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees,
+ each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and
+ here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder
+ cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way,
+ reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
+ But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes
+ down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain,
+ unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go
+ visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade
+ knee-deep among Tiger-lilies—what is the one charm wanting?—Water—there
+ is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would
+ you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of
+ Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate
+ whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a
+ pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy
+ with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to
+ sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such
+ a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out
+ of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the
+ Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this
+ is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of
+ Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he
+ saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image,
+ we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the
+ ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to
+ grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do
+ not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to
+ go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag
+ unless you have something in it. Besides, passengers get sea-sick—grow
+ quarrelsome—don't sleep of nights—do not enjoy themselves
+ much, as a general thing;—no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though
+ I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a
+ Captain, or a Cook. I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to
+ those who like them. For my part, I abominate all honourable respectable
+ toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as
+ much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships,
+ barques, brigs, schooners, and what not. And as for going as cook,—though
+ I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of
+ officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;—though
+ once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered,
+ there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say
+ reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous
+ dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse,
+ that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the
+ pyramids.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast,
+ plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True,
+ they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like
+ a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is
+ unpleasant enough. It touches one's sense of honour, particularly if you
+ come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or
+ Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previous to putting
+ your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country
+ schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you. The transition
+ is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires
+ a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear
+ it. But even this wears off in time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom
+ and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I
+ mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel
+ Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
+ respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't a
+ slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me
+ about—however they may thump and punch me about, I have the
+ satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one
+ way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or
+ metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed
+ round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be
+ content.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying
+ me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I
+ ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there
+ is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act
+ of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two
+ orchard thieves entailed upon us. But <i>being paid</i>,—what will compare
+ with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really
+ marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root
+ of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
+ Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise
+ and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are
+ far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate
+ the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the
+ quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the
+ forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same
+ way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same
+ time that the leaders little suspect it. But wherefore it was that after
+ having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it
+ into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer
+ of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs
+ me, and influences me in some unaccountable way—he can better answer
+ than any one else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed
+ part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time
+ ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more
+ extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run
+ something like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ "<i>Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.</i>
+ "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. "BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the
+ Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others
+ were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy
+ parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I cannot
+ tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I
+ think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being
+ cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about
+ performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it
+ was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating
+ judgment.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale
+ himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
+ Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the
+ undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending
+ marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to
+ my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been
+ inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for
+ things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous
+ coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and
+ could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is
+ but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one
+ lodges in.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great
+ flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that
+ swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul,
+ endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand
+ hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
+ </p>
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