>I'd ask why in the hell you've created such a website in the first
>place? :P
My AUT is not a website, it's a complex application that is deployed via an
HTML server and can be accessed by thin clients. It is not my creation, it
is my reality! The html pages I attached to this thread have been created
just to illustrate the problem.
>Can't say for sure though why it's slower than with VB. This would
>need some debugging to do.
By digging thought the Watir surce code, (input_elements.rb) I found that
the method set(value) of the class TextField invokes three other methods
before actually setting the value of the field: assert_exists,
assert_enabled and assert_not_readonly (very good!). There exists another
method in the same class that does almost the same: value=(v). It sets the
value of the field (as set(value) does), but does not call neither
assert_enabled nor assert_not_readonly. And it is fast! (To try this,
replace .set('123456789' by .value = '123456789' in my demo code). So now
the question is: why the methods assert_enabled and assert_not_readonly (one
of them or both) are slow for elements located within nested frames! (And
yes, in VB, equivalents of those methods are fast).
To be continued...
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