Current projects
- WebDriver standard: remote control interface that enables introspection and control of web browsers.
- Remote protocol for Firefox.
- geckodriver: WebDriver implementation for Firefox.
- WebDriver library for Rust, used in both geckodriver and Servo, the parallel browser engine research project.
More projects at GitHub and on my git mirror.
Writing & presentations
Future of WebDriver presented at Selenium user groups in Belfast and Tel Aviv.
The case against visibility checks in WebDriver, positing that platform APIs to deal with hit-testing is necessary.
Thoughts on distributed bug tracking.
Blog
Old and new
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Lunchtime brownbags
Over the Summer I’ve organised lunchtime brownbags in Mozilla’s London office. I recount some of the highlights and advice for replicating them elsewhere.
Persistent connections in WebDriver
A bug was recently reported that some of WebDriver’s error codes
used the 408 Request Timeout HTTP status code
and that this is in conflict with HTTP clients trying to use persistent connections.
WebDriver update from TPAC 2017
TPAC this year marked the culmination of six years of hard work defining the WebDriver standard. Here I talk a little bit about the new features that is coming.
What is libexec?
libexec is a system directory
meant for system daemons and utilities
executed by other programs,
but which are not intended to be executed directly by users.