On Nov 2, 3:12 pm, Jari Bakken <jari.bak...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Current FF also seems to no longer like this little trick, although > > you can find blog postings saying it works (but they are all from like > > 2008). I just tried this in FF7 and even with javascript enabled, and > > things set to allow it to move the browser entering > > javascript:window.resizeTo(800,600) into the URL bar had zero effect. > > Yeah, most modern browsers now don't allow this unless the page owns the > window (i.e. a popup window) - so you can't resize or move the main window. > That's why we want to add a window handling API to WebDriver.
Makes a lot of sense. We used to have a number of little 'tricks' that could be used to do this kind of thing when it was needed, but since the browser's have changed to mostly disallow that, the requirement for the tool to handle it has grown -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
