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Comment by dfabulich | Hacker News Reader

This is fantastic news!

The blog post doesn't mention iOS. Does anybody here know whether iOS Safari 10 will also support Webdriver?

Too late to edit my post, but I asked @brrian on Twitter and he said "no," iOS Safari 10 will/does not support Webdriver. https://twitter.com/brrian/status/769269326897557504

According to the docs: yes. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/relea...

Where are you seeing that? I'm seeing:

>Safari on OS X supports WebDriver, which lets you automate web-content testing. It provides a set of interfaces to manipulate DOM elements and control the browser’s behavior. You can enable Remote Automation in the Develop menu and then launch the server using /usr/bin/safaridriver. For information about library integrations as they become available, see the information about Selenium WebDriver.

Notably, the "on OS X" bit. (Shouldn't that be on macOS? I thought "OS X" was done for!) Equally, you obviously can't launch the server using /usr/bin/safaridriver on iOS.

From article: "Starting with Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, Safari comes bundled with a new driver implementation that’s maintained by the Web Developer Experience team at Apple."

Sorry guys, you're right. It's a bit confusing that Apple doesn't state clearly at all of the new features whether they're iOS / macOS-only.

From the link you shared:

> Safari on _OS X_ supports WebDriver, which lets you automate web-content testing.

I don't see any mention of iOS in relation to WebDriver.

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