I'm in complete agreement with this. Bret
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jari Bakken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was at GTAC (http://www.gtac.biz) last week and got to meet up with > the WebDriver guys, and have been working on ruby bindings for the > various browsers supported by WebDriver (these bindings run on MRI, no > JRuby needed, although that will work as well). At the moment, I have > working drivers for IE, Google Chrome and the Remote driver, Firefox > should be done in a couple of days, and Opera and mobile browser > support is on the roadmap. The code is up at > http://github.com/jarib/webdriver-rb for now - the plan is to get it > into the main WebDriver tree as soon as possible. > > This provides an API very similar to the Java bindings, which works > nicely, but being heavily invested in the Watir API (both as a Watir > user and having written Celerity), I would like to keep using that, > while reaping all the benefits of WebDriver. So my proposal is that > Watir 2.0 should be implemented on top of these ruby bindings. The > benefits of WebDriver are many, and well summed up elsewhere. See this > blog post: > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-webdriver.html > > Watir and WebDriver are trying to solve a lot of the same problems. > WebDriver already has great browser support that we would get for > free, making the Watir team able to concentrate on refining our API > instead of duplicating the effort to control all the various browsers. > I think this would be a very good move to make. > > Jari > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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