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@bathos I work in test automation and xpath is very popular and pervasive in that space. It is _much_ more popular than CSS selectors for automation: - The vast majority of browser automation is in Selenium (at least 5 times more than puppeteer, playwright and cypress combined). - The vast majority of browser automation is in Java/Python. - XPath is the most popular way to select things. I think that if you want to "prove" this it's pretty easy to ask grid vendors (like sauce labs) and I'm sure they'll be happy to help (I'm happy to ask them if this is called into question). Note that "popularity" isn't the reason Chrome is objecting to this. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/903#issuecomment-720135903
Received on Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:03:34 UTC