finding elements by index should begin with '1'

[siaynoq]

In Watir, when you try to find an element by index, it should begin with 1, instead of 0 (this limitation comes from Internet Explorer DOM, where indexing begins with 1).
To maintain compatibility, this should be changed in watir-webdriver.

Please comment :)

[jarib]

This is a deliberate break in compatibility. We've worked around it in while transitioning by doing this:

class Integer
  if System.webdriver?
    def as_index() self - 1 end
  else
    def as_index() self end
  end
end

browser.div(:index, 1.as_index)

See http://wiki.github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver/comparison-with-watir-1x for more changes.

[siaynoq]

This might be a big limitation for users (like me) with couple of thousand line of existing Watir code. Btw, I did a local workaround in normalized_selector()
I wonder if we could introduce something during startup, like new(symb, index_offset = 0) to make it even more compatible with Watir?

[jarib]

Making it configurable (which is what Celerity does) sounds like a sane approach. Please open a new bug for that.