[cosmo-dev] DOM ids for wayward elements

[Matthew Eernisse]

Howdy.

Bobby (among others) have previously advocated doing this -- there was 
this mailing list thread that starts here:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-December/002302.html

The thread didn't end with any decision.

It will actually be a little more work for me (I'll happily explain in 
detail as to why to anyone interested :)), but if everyone else thinks 
it's a good idea, I'll be happy to play along.


Matthew

Travis Vachon wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> While writing these tests I've noticed we are missing DOM ids for many 
> elements, most significantly buttons in various dialogs and the detail 
> view. I have been adding semantically descriptive ids to buttons as I 
> need them, which I'll make sure to check in in more-or-less their own 
> checkin.
> 
> Matthew mentioned in IRC that the lack of DOM ids is actually a matter 
> of policy rather than oversight, so I wanted to give an opportunity for 
> any concerns regarding these changes to be addressed. In the future I 
> believe it would be a good idea to provide semantically descriptive ids 
> to all DOM elements we create in the UI. This will make writing windmill 
> tests for the UI much easier for people not familiar with our code base.
> 
> -Travis
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