[wtr-general] Re: link and link_text not working in Watir 6?
two thumbs up on the below admonishment/advice. On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 7:52:36 AM UTC-7, Titus Fortner wrote: > > If you want to use Watir without its powerful element location API, and > use only the element method and only Selenium locators, you are more than > welcome to do that. > But stop telling other users that it's the right way to do it or that it's > better, because it isn't. > > Watir provides an easy way for the user to combine multiple location > strategies to uniquely identify an element without needing to use XPath. > What Watir sends to the driver is irrelevant to the user. > > XPath for the user => Bad > XPath for the driver => Good > > Separating what the user knows and what the driver knows is the whole > point, and your comments are only confusing the issue. > > > > On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 4:39:48 AM UTC-5, rajagopal...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> yes, that's what I am saying xpath usage must be the last one. If we >> could use available selenium-webdriver locators then we need to prefer that >> one. >> >> On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 7:28:06 PM UTC+5:30, Titus Fortner wrote: >>> >>> The only reasons not to use xpath are that it is hard to read, and >>> difficult to write such that it is not brittle. Neither of these apply to >>> how Watir implements its location system. >> >> >>> >>> -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[wtr-general] Re: link and link_text not working in Watir 6?
If you want to use Watir without its powerful element location API, and use only the element method and only Selenium locators, you are more than welcome to do that. But stop telling other users that it's the right way to do it or that it's better, because it isn't. Watir provides an easy way for the user to combine multiple location strategies to uniquely identify an element without needing to use XPath. What Watir sends to the driver is irrelevant to the user. XPath for the user => Bad XPath for the driver => Good Separating what the user knows and what the driver knows is the whole point, and your comments are only confusing the issue. On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 4:39:48 AM UTC-5, rajagopal...@gmail.com wrote: > > yes, that's what I am saying xpath usage must be the last one. If we could > use available selenium-webdriver locators then we need to prefer that one. > > On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 7:28:06 PM UTC+5:30, Titus Fortner wrote: >> >> The only reasons not to use xpath are that it is hard to read, and >> difficult to write such that it is not brittle. Neither of these apply to >> how Watir implements its location system. > > >> >> -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[wtr-general] Re: link and link_text not working in Watir 6?
yes, that's what I am saying xpath usage must be the last one. If we could use available selenium-webdriver locators then we need to prefer that one. On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 7:28:06 PM UTC+5:30, Titus Fortner wrote: > > The only reasons not to use xpath are that it is hard to read, and > difficult to write such that it is not brittle. Neither of these apply to > how Watir implements its location system. -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
