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if you post the html for the nav maybe there is another way


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM, hillary <weimar1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<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.<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::**MissingWayOfFindingObjectExcep**tion: name is
>> an unknown
>> > > > way of finding a <a> element (#page_25)
>
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