[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Pallavi Sharma wrote: > Can we help with Fire-watir and Chrome-Watir to begin with and also can take up some doc work. Wiki is at http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/. Create an account and fix/update/create any documentation you would like. :) You can fix bugs in

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Pallavi Sharma
:) I am a developer cum tester and have a team of same people who are more than willing to help. Have good knowledge of watir, selenium, sahi, qtp build frameworks over it. Of all this i found watir the most stable and best to use. I mean qtp couldn;t handled sync issues well and watir handles e

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Pallavi Sharma wrote: > Is there a way we can be help to this development? Yes! :) If you can code: I know SafariWatir is not in active development (and Dave, that created it, offered help if anybody wants to take it over): http://safariwatir.rubyforge.org/ Sai

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Pallavi Sharma
Yes You are right most of the web is not valid html, and selenium says that this doesn't work if the DOM is broken. What do you suggest then, I believe if we could make watir available for all OS and browsers nothing could beat watir. Is there a way we can be help to this development? Can you l

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Pallavi Sharma wrote: > Like Selenium wont work if the DOM is broken, but watir doesn' get affected by it.. Watir is not html validator. There are tools like that. Watir just automates browser. If browser does not care, Watir does not care. Selenium does not work

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Pallavi Sharma
Like unclosed HTML Tags, same IDs etc etc issues. How does watir identifies an element ? Like Selenium wont work if the DOM is broken, but watir doesn' get affected by it.. Thats why im curious.. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Željko Filipin < zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote: > On Mon,

[wtr-general] Re: Why watir works even if the DOM is broken??

2009-07-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Pallavi Sharma wrote: > Thus DOM being broken or not doesn't hamper watir functionality in any way. I am not sure how DOM can be broken. What do you mean by that. HTML does not validate? Watir can work with any page that you browser opens. If browser thinks page