Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir deserves its own project

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Hoover
But the bigger issue of ensuring compatability between versions of Watir is tricky. For example, FireWatir doesn't support frames. Is this reasonable? I suppose that is up to whatever minimum standard is used to determine whether an API is sufficiently compatible or not. I like the idea of

Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir deserves its own project

2006-07-13 Thread Bret Pettichord
On 7/13/06, Dave Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And even then, i suspect that each implementation would have some additional features that were not part of the standard API.No doubt.For example, SafariWatir has close and quit methods.Onecloses the window, while the other quits the

Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir deserves its own project

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Hoover
On 7/13/06, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With mine this is how you click an alert button: ie.dialog.button(OK).click For clarification, this is how you click an alert button with SafariWatir: browser.alert.click It doesn't take a parameter since alert boxes only have one button.

[Wtr-general] FireWatir deserves its own project

2006-07-12 Thread Bret Pettichord
There have been several inquiries lately asking about FireWatir, getting it to run on Mac and Linux, and about our future plans to integrate with the main Watir code base.Most of the work (all?) on FireWatir has been done by Angrez Singh and his partner Abishek. Angrez has been busy lately and has

Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir deserves its own project

2006-07-12 Thread Dave Hoover
On 7/12/06, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what FireWatir needs is more experimentation, and that means that it needs to be developed according to different development rules from Watir. I am happy to consult, and to hear any ideas about how it might develop differently, but i