Do you mean using watir-webdriver instead of watir-classic? We have not 
tried that, mainly due to how slow watir-webdriver was for IE the last time 
I used it (About 7 months ago).

On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 11:38:08 AM UTC-4, Titus Fortner wrote:
>
> Have you tried setting the driver to use webdriver? The code shouldn't 
> need to change much if at all, and the IE Driver is being actively updated.
> On Sep 21, 2015 9:56 AM, "Mike Malandra" <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this helps or matters, but the UI that is breaking is using 
>> Telerik.
>>
>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:56:57 AM UTC-4, Mike Malandra wrote:
>>>
>>> I am using Ruby 2.0.0 with Watir-Classic 4.2.0 on Windows 7 64 bit with 
>>> IE11.
>>>
>>> I have a script that works entirely fine when working with IE8. A button 
>>> is clicked, the next page loads, and the expected functionality continues 
>>> until the end of the script.
>>>
>>> However, I'm running into an issue when running the same script on a 
>>> machine with IE11 running with the site in compatibility mode. 
>>>
>>> When I click the same button, the entire WATIR process seems to lock up. 
>>> I eventually get a timeout and the script fails.  Once the script fails, I 
>>> attempt to maximize the window and take a screenshot. This can take 
>>> anywhere from 1 minute to 10 minutes after the process locks up (which is 
>>> not normal, it usually only take a moment to take a screenshot). While this 
>>> is occurring, I also can not attach to the browser through an IRB session.  
>>> The same steps can still be performed manually without issue - I can click 
>>> the button just fine and the next page loads, so this is an automation only 
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Another weird part is this is NOT 100% of the time, and occurs on my 
>>> machine and our webapps with about 80% repeatability. Sometimes the script 
>>> continues normally, which leads me to believe this is some sort of race 
>>> condition with compat mode. Even weirder is the fact that my colleague, who 
>>> has the same system setup as mine, does not run into this issue - though 
>>> his machine does tend to run slower than mine.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for working around this issue? We need 
>>> to upgrade to IE11 for other scripts, but obviously cannot until we resolve 
>>> this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks. 
>>>
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