[QA] better page object explanation, colon confusion

[Chris McMahon]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:37 PM, S Page <spage at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> E.g. https://github.com/cheezy/page-object/wiki/Elements has
>
>   button(:your_name, :id => 'an_id')
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> but our features/support/foo_page.rb files have e.g.
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>   h1(:first_heading, id: "firstHeading")
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> is this Ruby strangeness, or just supporting alternative syntaxes?
>

I'll defer to Dan or Zeljko (or Google) for a full CSish explanation...
These statements accomplish the same thing, but  the "=>" is an older
syntax and the second way is preferred today.

-Chris
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