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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
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