RE: Element location strategies

> I believe the general consensus was that the language bindings could easily translate those locator strategies into simple CSS selectors. So while the client-facing API would remain the same for > compatibility's sake, the remote end only had to understand finding by CSS selectors. But I'm old, and my memory isn't what it used to be.

That definitely makes sense to me. I just wanted to verify that's the decision we made.


> On Jun 10, 2015, at 18:04, John Jansen <John.Jansen@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> In reading through the spec for Element Location Strategies[1], I cannot help but notice a few strategies are missing. I looked through some minutes from our face-to-face meetings, and I cannot find notes on them. It's likely I didn't search hard enough.
> 
> Missing:
> By.tagName()
> By.className()
> By.Name()
> 
> Were they left out on purpose?
> 
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html#element-location-strategies-1 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:58:12 UTC