BTW, have you looked at FireDriver? http://github.com/saivenkat/firedriver
How would you compare this work to what you are doing? Bret On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog> > Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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