HA! That's funny that I just posted about this EXACT problem. .present? and .exists? should just immediately return true or false--to my mind, anyway.
Timeout errors are just inappropriate here. On Monday, December 10, 2012 10:28:15 PM UTC-7, Nigel wrote: > > We're successfully finding elements on the page, but find that calling > present?, exists?, visible? and click cause long pauses / blocks, until > timeouts occur. > > We're stumped as to why this occurs, and what can be done about it. > > We do find that if we put in sleep(s) that the problem goes away, which > leads us to believe that we have a timing issue on our hands. Can you give > some more insight into whats going on? > > Have you seen anything like this before? > > Ta > Nigel > -- 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