yeah it kinda broke all links to nav through a tab in the webapp. So i have to figure out a work around, because i can't really have the devs change it. The application i'm testing wasn't coded to any type of standards so it used name instead of id to tag links.
I'm going to be using watir to test both a legacy code base and a new mvc application (which uses html5) so i can't really go back to 2.0. I'm also on windows so I don't really have something like rvm to switch between gemsets to test both applications. So far this has been the only stumbling block in the upgrade process. On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:26:24 AM UTC-7, Jarmo Pertman wrote: > > Yes, we're trying to follow html5 standard now as watir-webdriver > does. I myself haven't used name for link even when using html4. > Hopefully there's not many things which will break. > > Also, don't forget that Watir 3 will not be itself fully backwards > compatible. > > Jarmo > > On Mar 26, 10:19 pm, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are we being strict about HTML5 for this stuff, because as near as I can > > tell, it was a valid optional attribute for an anchor tag as of HTML4 > > (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp) which means it would be > > perfectly valid HTML for many a website that was not yet upgraded to > HTML5 > > to be using a name attribute with an anchor tag. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:05:00 AM UTC-7, Jarmo Pertman wrote: > > > > > Short answer is yes. > > > > > All attributes got removed from all elements which are not valid for > > > that specific eleent. "name" is one of these examples, which is not a > > > valid attribute for link. > > > > > Starting from Watir 3, "name" is only valid attribute for these > > > elements: > > > button; fieldset; input; keygen; output; select; textarea; form; > > > iframe; object; map; meta; param. > > > > > Check out the more specific list for other elements at > > > > >http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-i... > > > > > > Jarmo > > > > > On Mar 22, 12:23 am, hillary <weimar1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I had been identifying some links by name. I upgraded to rc3 and now > i > > > get > > > > an error. > > > > > > browser.link(:name, "#page_25").click > > > > > > Watir::Exception::MissingWayOfFindingObjectException: name is an > unknown > > > > way of finding a <a> element (#page_25) -- 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
