Here is the page I was thinking of.
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Alternative+Tools+For+Web+Testing

This includes a mention of BrowserUnit which is the tool i was thinking of.
It is acually in .Net, but -- like WatiN -- it has an API that was
influenced by Watir.

Bret

2010/4/12 Bret Pettichord <[email protected]>

> I would not describe these as forks. They are "inspired" by Watir, to
> greater and lesser degrees and I don't think the Watir project should be
> endorsing any of them. E.g. at one point it seemed that despite the names,
> there was a more Watir-like Java driver that Watij -- I forget the name.
>
> However, i would include watir-webdriver, because it does implement the
> Watir-API, and its work is being coordinated with the other parts of the
> Watir project.
>
> It sounds like it makes sense to drop mention of chromewatir and instead
> list chrome as one of the platforms supported by watir-webdriver.
>
> Bret
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Željko Filipin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Should we put links to WatiN [1], Watij [2], Win32-Watir [3]  and
>> watir-webdriver [4]  on watir.com/platforms? For the first three we
>> should make it clear that they are not part of the project, just forks (in
>> wrong languages, as Bret would say it), and for the last one we should make
>> it clear that it is prerelease sofware.
>>
>> I would also remove ChromeWatir [5]  from platforms page. The last time I
>> have tried it was broken. I had a chat with Sai recently (lead of
>> ChromeWatir) and he said he would continue working on Chrome driver. I have
>> tried to convince him to better work on Webdriver's Chrome driver, than to
>> duplicate effort. Sai, what do you think?
>>
>> I talked at a few conferences about Watir [6] and I have noticed that
>> people really like the idea, but sometimes they would prefer implementation
>> in a familiar language.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1] http://watin.sourceforge.net/
>> [2] http://watij.com/
>> [3] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-Watir/
>> [4] http://github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver
>> [5] http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/ChromeWatir
>> [6] http://zeljkofilipin.com/category/self-education/events/
>>
>> Željko
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