fix(script): read the DOM instead of serializing and reparsing it

[vishnuv688]

What & why

Type of change

• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Polish (an improvement to an existing feature)
• Breaking change (existing behavior changes for users)
• Documentation
• Internal (build, CI, dependencies, tooling)

Packages touched

• shared (types and contracts)
• core (framework-agnostic capture/reporting)
• elements (published element/snapshot API — @wdio/elements)
• service (WebdriverIO adapter)
• nightwatch-devtools (Nightwatch adapter)
• selenium-devtools (Selenium adapter)
• selenium-devtools-py (Selenium Python adapter)
• backend (server)
• app (UI)
• script (page-injected runtime)
• trace (Trace mode)

Notes for reviewers

Screenshots / recordings

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium risk] Rewrites DOM serialization to read live instead of parsing HTML.

The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable new failure was established.

Summary

The PR replaces HTML serialization and reparsing with direct live-DOM traversal, reducing the injected collector bundle. It also removes pinned development Chrome drivers from the Nightwatch and Selenium adapters and adds serializer and bundle-size tests.

Diagram

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flowchart LR
  DOM[Live page DOM] --> Collector[Collector traversal]
  Collector --> Wire[Simplified vnode tree]
  Wire --> Replay[Replay]

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