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Comment on Basic Scripting of VM operations on ESX Server Using vmware-cmd by Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:01:02 +0000

Hey AB,

You are very welcome, I am glad that my post helped!

–Steve

Comment on Watir: Dealing with JavaScript and Frames by Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:32 +0000

Glad that I could help! Watir takes some getting used to, but I have found that once I got around the small quirks it works really well for web automation.

Comment on IE Automation with Ruby: Catching pop-up Windows by TechnologyYogi

TechnologyYogi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:30:12 +0000

I think AutoIt is best suited for Windows platform and IE. The language is simple and easy to learn, its like basic kind of programming language.

Here is a sample Web UI automation that I have done.
http://technologyyogi.blogspot.com/2008/12/generic-web-user-interface-login.html

Comment on Basic Scripting of VM operations on ESX Server Using vmware-cmd by AB

AB — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:37:55 +0000

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are making life simple and happy.I love to work & share ……

You are awesome

Comment on Watir: Dealing with JavaScript and Frames by Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Stumbled on this article looking for an issue I was having with Watir. Not only did it help but it seems we are both trying to automate UWaterloo web sites!

Comment on Bugs in the Wild: The Paradoxical Error Message Edition by Ndasmu » How do I delete windows update files?

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Comment on Bugs In the Wild: WYSIWYG in WordPress Edition by Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:25:39 +0000

Michael,

You clearly did a little more testing than I did for this one = ).

I think I did not investigate very much because I did not exactly know where to start. For me personally it has been a long time since I have needed to use any direct ascii (or similar codes) because in the web development I do, everything is displayed and spaced properly by using CSS.

Once I saw your post about the &minus, it got me to thinking, and I went a viewed the page source and low and behold I found the following section of code in the html:

two dashes in the editor “–” (but with ; after each one)

Based on this I now know the – refers to a dash, so in the future the – can also be used for dashes. The interesting thing hear is that I (and you Michael) definitely typed two dashes, so somewhere between the text editor and the post it gets interpreted as a single dash. I would also agree that I do not think it is an issue with WordPress but perhaps with the editor they use. To quickly test this out I sent myself a comment from my website with two dashes in the text editor and I received them in my e-mail properly, so it is not a generic problem across all text editors.

Thanks for the first solution and the starting point to spur my further investigation!

–Steve

Comment on Bugs In the Wild: WYSIWYG in WordPress Edition by Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:27:59 +0000

Ah. The non-displaying text is because my comments are awaiting moderation. The Firefox session ID tells the page it’s okay to show and tell that session about it, but this one doesn’t see it.

—Michael B.

Comment on Bugs In the Wild: WYSIWYG in WordPress Edition by Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:25:55 +0000

So there’s one answer, Steve: use −

I’m not convinced it’s a bug in WordPress, but I don’t know enough about character sets to be sure.

Weirdly, as I type, I can see my comment post above in Firefox…but in Internet Exploder, I can’t.

—Michael B.

Comment on Bugs In the Wild: WYSIWYG in WordPress Edition by Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:20:28 +0000

I wonder if the problem happens for me (he said, typing two hyphens): –

I wonder what happens when you use two instances of −?

−−

I wonder what happens when you use two instances of –?

And I wonder if the problem is in the WordPress editor, but not in this input field.

—Michael B.