Microsoft, the people still claim to be evil (who are actually big proponents of the the The Open Web), have... (wait for it...) SHIPPED. AN. IMPLEMENTATION. OF. WEBDRIVER!

At GTAC in California in 2011, Simon Stewart and I discussed that the Selenium project was at a crossroads (I am pretty sure beer was involved). We could ,and should, move this to the browser vendors. We had seen how in April the Chrome team had shipped their implementation and the Selenium project then deleted its implementation. I am pretty sure Daniel (Wagner-Hall) was glad to see it go.

In that time to now we have seen Mozilla get Marionette into Firefox and into release branches since Firefox 24 while slowly working on it (as well as Firefox OS support). We have seen Blackberry ship a version for the browser on their devices. We have seen mobile implementation with iOS-Driver, Selendroid and Appium.

The Spec is on track to be put forward for Recommendation by the end of the year. All the dreams that we (the Selenium Development team (my BFFs)) had are slowly coming true. This ship might be slow moving but it's mostly because some companies haven't always seen the value.

so...

.@kylealden I raise a drink to the @MSEdgeDev team (esp @thejohnjansen) for helping make this happen @jimevansmusic pic.twitter.com/eBxdpNNqPC

— David Burns (@AutomatedTester) July 23, 2015

P.s. There is an open bug on the WebKit tracker for Safari support (and it is getting some internal push so I am hopeful!)

http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/blog/2015/microsoft-ship-a-webdriver-implementation.html