[Wtr-general] HTML DOM Spy for Watir and Further plans

[Raghu Venkataramana]

Hi all,

I have put up a dom spy for Watir which can be used to 'spy' on a 
running IE browser to capture the DOM Elements in a format that Watir 
likes. The best part is that the attributes used to identify the object 
is Configurable and therefore can be used to suit the AUT. To get this,  
follow the instructions at :
      
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WET/Installing+the+Watir+Script+Assistant
The idea that I have in mind is to build a script assistant for Watir in 
just the same way as the one that exists for WET only if the Watir 
community is open for the idea. To see how the WET UI looks and works, 
please see the WET application that gets installed as a part of the 
install instructions posted above. (See 
http://www.wet.qantom.org/docs_overview.html for more help).

A couple of clarifications :
1) Although this is not a recorder, it does come with many of the 
conveniences of recorders. To see how this concept compares with 
recorders, see http://www.wet.qantom.org/wet_philosophy_mini.html

2) This has been written in C#. We have no plans of porting this to ruby 
as of now.

3) If there is a reasonable response, then I expect it to take roughly 3 
months before the implementation of the script assistant for Watir is 
ready.

Please respond to this mail with a +1 / -1 to indicate whether you 
believe the script assistant utility is a useful addition to Watir or 
not with a cc to wet-users at lists.sourceforge.net

-- 
Regards,
Raghu Venkataramana
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