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
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