Watir Watir Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby, pronounced water), is an open-source family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It drives Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers. Watir project consists of several smaller projects. The most important ones are watir-classic, watir-webdriver and watirspec. Watir-classic makes use of the fact that Ruby has built in Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) capabilities. As such it is possible to drive Internet Explorer programmatically. Watir-classic operates differently than HTTP based test tools, which operate by
Web Components are inside a template will not be fetched until the template is stamped out. HTML Templates are supported in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera. Support for an early version of Custom Elements and Shadow DOM, known as "v0", is present in some Blink-based browsers like Google Chrome and Opera and is in Mozilla Firefox (requires a manual configuration change). The newer Custom Elements and Shadow DOM "v1" APIs are being implemented in Safari 10, Google Chrome (53.0.2785), and under development in Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge did not implement Custom Elements or Shadow DOM. Backward compatibility with