#869: WebDriver BiDi
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Jul 1, 2023 (See Github)
Peter: Not web facing, cross vendor support. Concern about patching html.
Amy: understand S&P doesn't apply necessarily but can't find any other kind of security assessment
Peter: does give the driver in the browser a lot more capabilities to know what's going on.. okay with that in this context
Amy: no use cases, only "customer scenarios". Even their "end-to-end user scenarios" doc doesn't seem to involve actual users. Is there an accessibility angle?
Peter: I don't think I've seen use cases for building accessibility tools in the browser. Out of scope, but would be interesting.
Amy: thinking out loud about abuse cases
Peter: all already possible. Web Driver has been around a long time. Happy to close as satisfied.
Hadley: +1
Peter: curious about their modified version of json rpc
Hadley: should be in the explainer
Comment by @plinss Aug 1, 2023 (See Github)
We took a look at this in our vF2F this week and are generally satisfied. Given that this isn't web facing we don't see any significant architectural impact to the web. We're glad to see the broad vendor involvement and support.
Once minor question is why the modifications to JSON-RPC? Not a big deal, but it seems breaking compatibility with standard JSON-RPC libraries should only be done if there's significant benefit, and that isn't clearly articulated.
Comment by @mathiasbynens Aug 1, 2023 (See Github)
Thank you!
Once minor question is why the modifications to JSON-RPC? Not a big deal, but it seems breaking compatibility with standard JSON-RPC libraries should only be done if there's significant benefit, and that isn't clearly articulated.
The motivation for this is explained here: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/issues/14
OpenedJul 4, 2023
こんにちは TAG-さん!
I'm requesting a TAG review of WebDriver BiDi.
WebDriver BiDi is a bidirectional protocol for browser automation, building on and extending the “classic” WebDriver protocol.
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