[Webtest] (another) Webtest recorder

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi,

> Congratulations. Great peice of work!!! When earlier you had mentioned about a plugin for Firefox I had not imagined that it be as simple as this!!! Really neat peice of work.
> 
> I am a bit apprehensive of this style as
> 1. This modifies the code of the application under test (notifyLinks etc are inserted in the HTML output of the application).
> 2. If forms are being submitted via JavaScript by changing their actions, then it 'may' be more tricky to handle.

I'm *total* apprehensive of this style. It is absolutely not the way to continue to go in because it brings many 
problems. Html has to be parsed on the server to be instrumented what give to the server all problems of html parsing. 
Second, when something happens on the client side, it has to be "captured" and replayed on the server what brings its 
own difficulties.
As already said, we've developped it this way because it was easier for us and in a first time enough for our needs. 
Nevertheless I'm convinced that a Firefox extension would be far more elegant: the recorder would just have to listen 
for user actions and the job of interpreting and displaying html or of performing server request would be for the 
browser which does it perfectly. But as long as nobody has written such an extension...

Marc.