✅ Selenium Vs. WebView
Hi,
Quick question: does WebView2 make Selenium obsolete? Assuming the goal is to create the automation of a headless browser.
I have no prior experience with WebView, but am contemplating whether it’s worth getting into and ditching Selenium. I’m not 100% sure though if it offers the exact same feature set.
Thanks I’m advance.
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it's possible with webview to programmaticly control everything ?
@Qwerz
Is that a question?
yeah
I'm not sure to understand yours
webview and browser driver are 2 different technology
I want to fully navigate, automate, interact (download/ upload data) with a website using a headless browser in the background of my application.
Question: do I need something like Selenium or does WebView cover all that natively?
first if you want to run on other os than windows it wont work
Assuming my target os is windows.
(Server)
I don't see any doc speaking about controlling
where did you see that ?
I didn’t I was asking if it covers that and if someone would have said yes, then I’d have looked more into it.
So WebView is literally only for “viewing” not controlling?
That sounds quite weak.
yeah that's all the point
if you want to do automation playwright is easier than selenium
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. Although I’m not quite sure why something like that would be implemented in such a way.
I’ll stick with Selenium then, I’m already comfortable with it. Thank you friend!
ok
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