[Simpletest-support] A warning on the upcoming RC2

[Marcus B. <ma...@la...>]

Hi.

RC2 will probably break your web tests!

As several people have pointed out, if you have a lot of formatting 
within your page elements they can be a real pain. Such things as...

$this->clickLink('Big &amp; <b>important</b> link');

Now tag content is converted to space normalised text, so you only have 
to go...

$this->clickLink('Big & important link');

The exception to watch out for is images. They are collapsed to their 
"alt" text...

<a href="here,html"><img src="piccy.jpg" alt="A pic">Stuff</a>

$this->clickLink('A pic Stuff');

...so that image links are now clickable in some form.

I realise that this will break existing test suites, but as people have 
been screaming for this fix for some time I have decided to bite the 
bullet at this late stage. You can try all of this out if you do a pull 
of the current CVS version.

It would be nice to get some feedback as to the correctness of this 
decision so that I don't get into this kind of mess again. Please let me 
know what you think.

yours, Marcus
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