I was going to www.etsy.com On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > No worries for the hijack.. > > I was responding to "I guess I'm wondering if you can > install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. " > > which I didn't take to mean using an emulator. (although I agree for > testing purposes, the emulator approach is most likely best. ) > > It would be interesting to figure out why the iphonedriver doesn't > work with watir-webdriver once it gets to the webpage. (what webpage > is it going to?) > > On Nov 21, 10:55 am, bis <bis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think he meant running them against an iphone/ipad either device or >> simulator this can be done with iphonedriver. we actually messed >> around with trying to actually get watir-webdriver and the >> iphonedriver to work together but it seems that watir-webdriver can >> launch the browser and go to the webpage but it cant interact with any >> of the elements. >> >> sorry for the hijack >> >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Well firstly you would need Ruby for the iPad, and I don't know if >> > such a beast exists, and if it does how good it is. ( Not owning an >> > iPad, I'm not interested enough to research this.. google is your >> > friend, have fun ;-) let us know if you find anything promising) >> >> > After that you'd likely need to run SafariWatir but I don't know if >> > the iPad safari is close enough to the Mac version to work with it. >> > as far as I know, nobody has tried this yet. >> >> > Watir would not work of course because it drives IE, and it will be a >> > pretty cold day in hell before apple & MS conspire to create an IE >> > browser for the iPad. >> >> > You Might (again depending on how good the ruby environment for the >> > iPad is) be able to use something like Watir-webdriver and run it >> > against Opera or Firefox, both of which I believe had iPad versions, >> > but I'm not sure how well that would work or if the webdriver drivers >> > for those browsers would work on the iPad. >> >> > (personally, given what a security sieve Safari is, if I had an iPad, >> > I think I'd take a hard look at Firefox or Opera as a browser on that >> > device anyway, so looking into at least part of that might be good for >> > you in terms of finding a good safe browser to surf with.) >> >> > Even presuming all that worked, I'm not sure the iPad's multitasking >> > capabilities (or lack thereof) are up to running all that stuff at the >> > same time. >> >> > As far as I understand it, people developing stuff to run on iPads >> > often use emulators to simulate the ipad, and most of their test tools >> > run on the host OS in parallel with the emulator software, I suspect >> > in large part due to multitasking restrictions on the iPad itself (at >> > least the initial generation) >> >> > On Nov 21, 6:07 am, Patrick <patrick.rawli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to take existing Watir scripts that run on a webbrowser >> >> and have them run on an Ipad? I guess I'm wondering if you can >> >> install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. >> >> >> If anyone has successfully done this I'd love to hear about it. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Patrick >> >> > -- >> > Before posting, please readhttp://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 > > -- > 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 >
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