Many thanks for your reply karim.
I'm not sure that the information on this link helps.
This page indicates how to wait if Watir doesn't explicitly wait.
I want to explicitly NOT wait for a page to finish loading, because in
essence the page 'never' loads fully due to the continuous http
I found this in a different thread.
It suggests running goto in a different thread, then sleeping for a
few seconds until its likely to have loaded. Its not ideal, but it
works:-
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From: LFIdnl sraniim...@gmail.com
Date: Dec 10 2008, 7:33 am
Subject: Modal
Hi,
I'm pretty new to Watir and I'm having an intermittent problem with
scripts hanging when a web page doesn't fully load.
I'm trying to run:-
Watir::IE.start(http://www.igindex.co.uk;)
This sometimes works but sometimes the the start method doesn't return
and the script simply hangs