This makes no sense to me. Shouldn't we just merge important changes
like modal support into Watir main? Or am I missing something? Is
vapir a silent protest of sorts?
Regards,
Tim
On 06/05/2010, at 3:47, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Watir people,
I am happy to announce the release of the Vapir library, which is a
fork of Watir and FireWatir.
It is documented primarily at the github wiki at
http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/
Documentation is sorely lacking at the moment, and improving it is my
highest priority, but putting the code out for people to use preceded
that.
Links to other aspects of the forked project are listed at http://vapir.org/
The API is in most cases the same, with some changes where I felt it
was best; these are enumerated at
http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/differences-from-watir-api
It is a release candidate currently, and can be installed using the
--pre flag to rubygems (rubygems 1.3.6 is required; run gem update
--system if you are on an earlier version).
gem install --pre vapir-firefox
gem install --pre vapir-ie
Major improvements over Watir are:
- Modal dialog API which is (mostly) consistent between IE and Firefox
- http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/modal-dialogs
- Unified codebase for both Firefox and IE interaction - basically,
everything that works in IE works in Firefox as well, which is not the
case with FireWatir.
- Many bug fixes and feature enhancements for issues in Watir's issue
tracker, which will be documented more thoroughly on the wiki in the
coming days.
I would encourage any questions or discussion to go to Vapir's mailing
list, not Watir's. The forked project is intended to stand on its own,
separate from the Watir library due to a great deal of changes in the
codebase which make it to some degree (a small degree, hopefully)
incompatible. Support will be on Vapir's mailing list at
http://groups.google.com/group/vapir
-Ethan
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