I'm in complete agreement with this.<br><br>Bret<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jari Bakken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jari.bakken@gmail.com">jari.bakken@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I was at GTAC (<a href="http://www.gtac.biz" target="_blank">http://www.gtac.biz</a>) last week and got to meet up with<br>
the WebDriver guys, and have been working on ruby bindings for the<br>
various browsers supported by WebDriver (these bindings run on MRI, no<br>
JRuby needed, although that will work as well). At the moment, I have<br>
working drivers for IE, Google Chrome and the Remote driver, Firefox<br>
should be done in a couple of days, and Opera and mobile browser<br>
support is on the roadmap. The code is up at<br>
<a href="http://github.com/jarib/webdriver-rb" target="_blank">http://github.com/jarib/webdriver-rb</a> for now - the plan is to get it<br>
into the main WebDriver tree as soon as possible.<br>
<br>
This provides an API very similar to the Java bindings, which works<br>
nicely, but being heavily invested in the Watir API (both as a Watir<br>
user and having written Celerity), I would like to keep using that,<br>
while reaping all the benefits of WebDriver. So my proposal is that<br>
Watir 2.0 should be implemented on top of these ruby bindings. The<br>
benefits of WebDriver are many, and well summed up elsewhere. See this<br>
blog post:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-webdriver.html" target="_blank">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-webdriver.html</a><br>
<br>
Watir and WebDriver are trying to solve a lot of the same problems.<br>
WebDriver already has great browser support that we would get for<br>
free, making the Watir team able to concentrate on refining our API<br>
instead of duplicating the effort to control all the various browsers.<br>
I think this would be a very good move to make.<br>
<br>
Jari<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bret Pettichord<br>Lead Developer, Watir, <a href="http://www.watir.com">www.watir.com</a><br><br>Blog, <a href="http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog">www.io.com/~wazmo/blog</a><br>
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