[🚀 Feature]: Add implicint wait, behind the scenes, when interacting with WebElements

[harmin-parra]

Feature and motivation

Recent frameworks like Cypress and Playwright, make an implicit wait behind the scenes, when interacting with WebElements.

For this reason, Cypress and Playwright are very suitable for testing modern websites built with AngularJs and ReactJs

With Selenium, you need to write extra code to add the implicit wait.

Usage example

Writing this:

element = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'someid')

Instead of this:

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'someid')))

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[titusfortner]

Selenium does have the ability to do Implicit waiting — https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/waits/#implicit-waits

Waiting is tricky because there is no single correct way to do it that works for every single use case (including how Playwright/Cypress does it). Many projects that wrap or extend Selenium have taken slightly different approaches.

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