I think he meant running them against an iphone/ipad either device or simulator this can be done with iphonedriver. we actually messed around with trying to actually get watir-webdriver and the iphonedriver to work together but it seems that watir-webdriver can launch the browser and go to the webpage but it cant interact with any of the elements.
sorry for the hijack On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well firstly you would need Ruby for the iPad, and I don't know if > such a beast exists, and if it does how good it is. ( Not owning an > iPad, I'm not interested enough to research this.. google is your > friend, have fun ;-) let us know if you find anything promising) > > After that you'd likely need to run SafariWatir but I don't know if > the iPad safari is close enough to the Mac version to work with it. > as far as I know, nobody has tried this yet. > > Watir would not work of course because it drives IE, and it will be a > pretty cold day in hell before apple & MS conspire to create an IE > browser for the iPad. > > You Might (again depending on how good the ruby environment for the > iPad is) be able to use something like Watir-webdriver and run it > against Opera or Firefox, both of which I believe had iPad versions, > but I'm not sure how well that would work or if the webdriver drivers > for those browsers would work on the iPad. > > (personally, given what a security sieve Safari is, if I had an iPad, > I think I'd take a hard look at Firefox or Opera as a browser on that > device anyway, so looking into at least part of that might be good for > you in terms of finding a good safe browser to surf with.) > > Even presuming all that worked, I'm not sure the iPad's multitasking > capabilities (or lack thereof) are up to running all that stuff at the > same time. > > As far as I understand it, people developing stuff to run on iPads > often use emulators to simulate the ipad, and most of their test tools > run on the host OS in parallel with the emulator software, I suspect > in large part due to multitasking restrictions on the iPad itself (at > least the initial generation) > > On Nov 21, 6:07 am, Patrick <patrick.rawli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it possible to take existing Watir scripts that run on a webbrowser >> and have them run on an Ipad? I guess I'm wondering if you can >> install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. >> >> If anyone has successfully done this I'd love to hear about it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Patrick > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before > you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
