Re: [WebDriver] getPageSource - Does it need to be a remote end call?

(Fine with me)

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:22 PM, David Burns <dburns@mozilla.com> wrote:

> As has been pointed out in this thread, the specification is purely for
> documenting how to implement the remote end. While this might be highly
> used it is also the easiest to implement in 1 line of JavaScript. I agree
> with the sentiment that we already have a lot to do with the spec so let's
> not worry about it for now.
>
> David
>
> On 10 April 2015 at 13:48, Andreas Tolfsen <ato@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10 Apr 2015, at 13:23, James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
>> > 1) It's an entirely backwards-compatible change so can be added at any
>> > time in the future.
>>
>> …
>>
>> > 3) It's trivial to implement in clients in a way that covers all the use
>> > cases for the current spec (i.e. interacting with web browsers).
>>
>> I think the concern is that if we don't define it, API local ends who do
>> implement a shim for it could end up implementing it wrongly.
>>
>> My argument is that Selenium is free to mandate its behaviour and that
>> it's in such a regard not a big problem if we don't have it in the spec.
>>
>> Additionally, it would regardless be consistent across browsers in a
>> single language binding which isn't the case now.  If Selenium really wants
>> to be pedantic about this, it could ship a local end atom.
>>
>>
>>
>

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