Support find element by image as part of WebDriver spec?
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Description
RE: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/6406 (for details)
Maybe worth considering as the spec can be used for various UI automation including desktop (e.g. WinAppDriver, and mobile) where things can be graphics UI heavy compared to browser UI, and desktop UI automation traditionally had an image recognition based way to do automation.
If the spec offers certain parts of the spec to be optional for implementation (available feature vs not available per specific driver type), this could be one I suppose.
Appium is already supporting this feature I suggested long time back, would be nice to extend this beyond just Appium.
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Research direction
Read the related issue w3c/webdriver#6406 and the WebDriver specification context described here, then compare the proposal with Appium's existing image-based support. The issue would be complete only after the specification community decides whether image-based element finding belongs in WebDriver and, if so, defines its scope and optionality.
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- Issue type
- Feature
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