Initial Notes On Upgrading WebDriver to Work With Firefox 3
Firefox 3 is coming, and it's about time I started looking at updating the WebDriver extension so that it works with it.
It's pleasing to see that the first page that shows up when you start beta 3 is a "help sheet", containing links to a bunch of useful information. There's also a helpful page on the Mozilla website containing information for XUL and extension developers. Notable for WebDriver is the fact that FUEL appears to be far more advanced than it was, and that there's native support for encoding and decoding JSON strings, which should give a small speed boost. Now, if only there was an embedded HTTP server!
I've yet to see if Firefox 3 is a XULRunner app, but if it is then there's a new avenue for automation that is opened up: JavaXPCOM.
From my initial explorations, this looks like it's going to be relatively painless. I'll keep you posted.
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