On Friday, May 17, 2013 10:43:32 AM UTC-7, Željko Filipin wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Chuck van der Linden < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> IMHO if you are just trying to parse HTML, and not trying to drive a >> browser, you might be better off to just use Nokogiri ( >> http://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri) >> > > +1 > > Željko >
While in general that might be the case, my use-case requires Watir, and while Watir might not be great at parsing HTML, using a completely separate parser like Nokigiri in ADDITION to Watir is overkill for this particular purpose. Having said that, I would like to add: I must admit that I like the flexibility of Selenium-Webdriver, in that it can now drive many different browsers, and so on. However, Selenium-Webdriver also has some rather severe limitations, some of which were intentionally built in (I know that some limitations are by design, from my own conversations with Selenium-Webdriver developers.) While the OLD (pre-FireWatir) Watir was restricted to IE, which was itself a severe limitation, if you could live with that it did many things better than the new Watir with Selenium-Webdriver does. I know Watir is a testing platform but it has many uses beyond testing that over the years have often been ignored or actively discouraged. -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
