Agreed that the url should be always relative. I won't dig into code just
yet, but is your suggested JavaScript getAttribute used by FireWatir
already? In Watir, i think that the attribute is retrieved directly from the
OLE element. Not sure of course.

Jarmo

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Alok Menghrajani <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like consistency :)
>
> However, I think it's also nice to have the library support relative
> paths. When you have different types of boxes (test, qa, prod, ...), you
> don't want to have to deal with absolute URLs because they aren't
> constant. Everyone could of course write a wrapper to deal with this, but
> imho it would be better for watir to abstract this out.
>
> Alok
>
> On 4/15/11 2:01 AM, "Jari Bakken" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> >WebDriver will eventually become consistent in always returning the
> >absolute path. If you get the latest pre-release version  (0.2.0.dev)
> >of selenium-webdriver it will be consistent for at least IE / Firefox.
>
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