Support Internet Explorer about splinter HOT 15 CLOSED

Closing this issue. Internet Explorer is very, very dead at this point. Microsoft hasn't supported it in years. Splinter supports Edge but that's as far as we can go.

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specloud is not compatible with Windows =/

I've just added another target on Makefile for running tests on Windows using only nose.

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The lack of support of IE is the only reason that I am not using splinter in some projects...

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the problem in support in ie is run splinter on windows

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I'm adding Windows support on windows branch.

Here is the status, based on test files:

• test_browser.py: all tests are ok. Just needed to disable _patch_subprocess method on Windows, because it doesn't work.
• test_element_list.py: all tests are ok. No changes needed.
• test_meta.py: all tests are ok. No changes needed.
• test_request_handler.py: all tests are ok. No changes needed.
• test_webdriver_chrome.py: these tests are very slow, but only alerts aren't working.
• test_webdriver_firefox.py: all tests are ok (but slow, not as slow as Chrome is). No changes needed.
• test_zopetestbrowser.py: all tests are ok (but slow). No changes needed.

Also, I'm adding test_webdriver_ie.py, the goal here :)

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What about IEs4Linux? http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

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I'm -1 to support ms ie

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I'm -1 to support ms ie [2]

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Why the -1s for IE support? You folks never have to write any websites that might have an IE person using them? If so, you'd rather be testing all these things yourself manually? Seems silly... I'd really like to get this sorted so I can have a continuous build running IE for me :)

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@kippr I think the problem that we have is that no core developer or commiter uses windows as their main OS, which makes it hard to test and keep things updated.

If we had a person to officially support/maintain this driver, I would be +1.

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LOL, I should be careful what I ask for I guess, I don't want to be stuck using Windows either...

That said, this would potentially solve a big gap for me. Let me take a look at whether the Windows stuff solves my headaches and if so you might have a volunteer :)

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splinter has a no official support for windows.

It's complicated for non windows users maintain an environment with git, bash, pip, makefile running on windows and test every commit for splinter on windows.

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Maybe appveyor can help here ? (http://www.appveyor.com/)
This is the windows equivalent for travis-ci, also free for open source projects.
Here is an example of the configuration file:
https://github.com/mozilla/mozregression/blob/master/appveyor.yml

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For folks who want to use IE with splinter, check this out: https://stirunagari.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/using-internet-explorer-web-driver-with-splinter-framework/

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just added a comment to the blog entry that @kanth240 mentioned above. with a minor tweak the solution there works perfectly for my scenario.
What is the issue that prevents us from integration this into splinter? Test env?

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