From b0e82b092531b2fb7def85e4e6350a2493097fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Walpole <twalpole@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:23:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate Capybara::Helpers::normalize_whitespace

---
 lib/capybara/helpers.rb | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/capybara/helpers.rb b/lib/capybara/helpers.rb
index 91c54ad43..ae2f59531 100644
--- a/lib/capybara/helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara/helpers.rb
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ module Helpers
     extend self
 
     ##
-    #
+    # @deprecated
     # Normalizes whitespace space by stripping leading and trailing
     # whitespace and replacing sequences of whitespace characters
     # with a single space.
-    # TODO: Deprecate this see: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html#dfn-bot-dom-getvisibletext
     #
     # @param [String] text     Text to normalize
     # @return [String]         Normalized text
     #
     def normalize_whitespace(text)
+      warn "DEPRECATED: Capybara::Helpers::normalize_whitespace is deprecated, please update your driver"
       text.to_s.gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ').strip
     end