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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Watir 1.5.4 is released

New Features

• Add new speed, :zippy. This is like fast, but, in effect, it does a TextField#value= instead of a TextField#set. If you have specific text fields that you never want this to happen to, use ie.text_field(:how, what).requires_typing.set instead.
  http://svn.openqa.org/fisheye/changelog/watir/?cs=1295
• Add support for Chinese input as supplied by Vincent Xu.
  http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-71.

Bug Fixes

• Add dependency on windows-pr 0.6.6,...

Posted at 23 Apr @ 5:44 PM by Bret Pettichord | 0 comments

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