The Web Testing in Ruby group is pleased to announce the release of Watir 1.4. Watir is a Ruby Library for automating web applications using the Internet Explorer browser.

This release contains many bug fixes and new features.

- fix method name for accessing class name of P/Span/Div (change from style to class_name)
- fix for bug 2152 (frame index in show_frames off by 1)
- added alt as a property to image
- added file_fields
- fixed TextArea#to_s
- moved reset button to buttons class
- add IE#send_keys
- frames can now be referenced using regexps and ids
- added IE#minimize, IE#maximize, IE#restore
- onChange and onBlur events now triggered by TextField#set
- added default option to set for checkbox
- added colspan method to tablecell
- fix for bug reported by Scott P, wrong objects are sometimes found
- fixed bug with radio/checkboxes doing multiple fireevents
- fix for table, id and reg exp
- wait for page load before returning from IE.attach
- update to select_list -- new interface still in progress
- added .show method to iterators
- fix for flashing objects in table cells
- added flash for forms
- flash returns nil instead of the curious '10'
- removed ScreenCapture module from IE class