did pik add gemsets? It's not so much different versions of ruby that's a problem, but need to use different versions of watir if the direction of future versions of watir is html5. The comment below me suggested xpath which i hadn't thought of, so i'm going to try that.
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:35:57 PM UTC-7, Oscar.Rieken wrote: > > Pik is a tool to manage multiple versions of ruby on Windows. It can be > used from the Windows command line (cmd.exe), Windows PowerShell, or Git > Bash. > https://github.com/vertiginous/pik > > just so you know there is one out there :) > 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) >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- 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
