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Introducing WebDriver, a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps.
WebDriver takes a different approach to solve the same problem as Selenium. Rather than being a JavaScript application running within the browser, it uses whichever mechanism is most appropriate to control the browser. For Firefox, this means that WebDriver is implemented as an extension. For IE, WebDriver makes use of IE's Automation controls. By changing the mechanism used to control the browser, we can circumvent the restrictions placed on the browser by the JavaScript security model. In those cases where automation through the browser isn't enough, WebDriver can make use of facilities offered by the Operating System. For example, on Windows we simulate typing at the OS level, which means we are more closely modeling how the user interacts with the browser, and that we can type into "file" input elements.
HTML5 "property" "item" and "subject" gives interesting look at microformats
I've added to HTML5 a simple syntax (three new attributes) based on RDFa. It doesn't have the full power of RDF, because that didn't seem to be necessary to address the use cases. It doesn't really have anything in common with Microformats; I didn't find the Microformats syntax to be very convenient. (This was also the experience with eRDF.)
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