That's an interesting option, thanks for that. I'm actually on Ubuntu, and am most likely going to be needing solutions that work with Ubuntu nearly all of the time.
Do you know of any way to strip down firefox to the bare essentials and possibly even package it with a Watir based app? I'm going to go dig for a solution right now but wanted to run it by here first. Thanks On Mar 15, 6:38 pm, Ethan <[email protected]> wrote: > No bindings exist for that browser, I expect. There are bindings for safari > on Mac OSX, but I doubt they'd be at all compatible with that, the only > similarity being Webkit. > You might look into Firefox Portable, assuming you're on windows. I use that > to keep a consistent browser environment for all the machines that people I > work with use Watir on. You can run it alongside an installed Firefox > without conflict, at the same time. > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 20:16, dchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > A possible option that I'm seeing is Arora (http://code.google.com/p/ > > arora/) > > > Do bindings exist for this browser? > > > On Mar 15, 2:26 pm, dchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I've found Watir to be really cool, great for a lot of scraping and > > > testing needs. I especially love the ability to record interactions in > > > Firefox and for the most part have code ready to drop into my scripts. > > > But now I'm at a point where I'd like to be able to script out a tool > > > or test, then switch it to an internal browser solution that can be > > > packaged up and distributed to any machine and run on it's own, > > > irrelevant of the system it's on. > > > > I know there is Celerity, which obviously does this stuff, but it's > > > not the cleanest solution when it comes to working with AJAX and > > > Javascript. I've been thinking that potentially being able to package > > > up a stripped down webkit browser could be a different solution. That > > > way, you'd have the full power of Safari rendering without needing to > > > tie into a client's firefox or IE. The script would access it's own > > > browser instead of touching system browsers. > > > > Is this possible? Is there a way to tell your scripts to load a > > > specific webkit browser? > > > -- > > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search > > before you ask, be nice. > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > >http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > To post: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: > > [email protected]<watir-general%[email protected]> > > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
