The zero-index work needs to be finished, like you said. The big issue the remains open is the ownership and interface for Watir::Browser. Watir and Watir-Webdriver have conflicting versions of this module/class. Watir's version (actually in common-watir) is pluggable to use different implementations of watir-compatable drivers. Watir-WebDriver's assumes you are using webdriver for all browsers. What I would like to see would be for Watir-Webdriver to rename its class and then update Watir::Browser to user Watir-Webdriver as the default implementation for Firefox and perhaps others.
To make this really work, we'd also have to pull the Watir::IE implementation out of the watir gem (creating a new gem ie-watir), so that it was an optional component of watir -- and of course one that would only be an option for Windows. There are also lots of other packaging issues, but I think these are big boulders. Bret On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Alister Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > What would be needed to get to a point where Watir-Webdriver was fully > included in Watir? > > Watir would choose the best driver for the platform and browser. For > example, on Windows and IE, this would be the native Watir driver, on > Mac-Chrome, this would be ChromeDriver. > > I understand the biggest difference is the zero based indexing, but I don't > think there has been any work since October last year on this: > https://github.com/bret/watir/tree/zero-index > > What I would love to see one gem "watir" that provides all the necessary > drivers easily configurable for all platforms. We could then have unified > documentation on watir.com that easily shows how to use this. > > Am I being too ambitious? What needs to be done? > > Cheers, > Alister > > Alister Scott > Brisbane, Australia > Watir Web Master: http://watir.com > Blog: http://watirmelon.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alisterscott > > "There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more > and more. The other is to desire less." *~ G. K. Chesterton* > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com Blog, www.testingwithvision.com Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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