Could you be more specific (and bring some concrete example) what's bad about using IE#text.include?
Jarmo On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question. > > I am talking about (and arguing agains) using the text method on the IE > object itself (IE#text), not using on specific elements on a page. > > Bret > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Alan Baird <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Also, pretty reluctant to add any methods that will be hard to implement >> > in >> > different implementations. As it is already, the "text" method is not >> > compatible between versions and we should really be encouraging people >> > not >> > to use it. I don't think it really is a good practice any way. >> >> Bret - >> >> Can you clarify this a bit? I'm thinking you are saying it's not good >> practice, say, to get the text of a span by doing 'browser.span(:id, >> 'someid').text'. However, I'm not sure I can immediately think of a >> better way of doing this other than parsing the html. I'm pretty sure >> that's not what you mean. >> >> What is the better way of doing this? >> >> Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
