Yes, I agree completely on both points.

Bret

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Alan Baird <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Bret.  I also want to add my .02 that "visible"
> is a bit difficult to nail down.  I find the .visible? method to be
> pretty good, but not always 100% dependable.  For example, in one of
> the apps I test, an element is made not visible by using the zindex
> value of -999 to place certain elements behind others, thus making
> them not visible to the users, but "visible" in terms of the .visible?
> method.  This is a legitimate way of doing things in HTML, but it
> would be very difficult to write .visible? to handle this case.
>
> As for IE#text, it seems like using this to detect things on a page is
> a recipe for bad things to happen.  I can't see myself being in favor
> of it.
>
> Alan
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