Hi Charles,

>I thought watir-webdriver implemented aliases for tr and td as row and
cell,  I see them in the rdoc.  but they are not shown on your chart.

As far as I remember the only class watir-webdriver supplies with row()
method is Watir::Table, but not the Container.

Thank you,
Aliaksandr Ikhelis


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Charles S van der Linden <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Z wrote sometime back in Dec
>
> I have created a table of all HTML elements and added data which Watir gem
> (watir, watir-webdriver, safariwatir) supports each element and/or it's
> collection.
>
>
> I thought watir-webdriver implemented aliases for tr and td as row and
> cell,  I see them in the rdoc.  but they are not shown on your chart.
>
>
> I like that you have the column for the plural form.
>
> What does the color coding mean?
>
> It might be good to perhaps consider coloring the 'alias' methods that
> are not the same as a tag, such as cell, text_field, etc.
>
> Speaking of which, what's our position on those? Are those deprecated?
> or should we encourage their use under the basis of more readable
> code?  I'm a bit torn on that as I like .row better than .tr and .link
> over .a but at the same time I wonder if we should be encouraging
> testers to learn the html tag names.  I think I've lost count of the
> number of times we've had someone complaining that 'clicking a link
> does not work' and then you see their html and the thing they are
> trying to click is an li (list item) tag, not an a (anchor aka link)
> tag.  I guess I forget that when I tested my first web-app I didn't
> know html very well either.
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