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Verify conditions synchronously with CasperJS / PhantomJS

Synchronously waiting for a condition to be met in CasperJS (during AJAX calls and dynamic content loading on the page), implementation of helper methods:

And now we can dynamically verify that our startup dialog has some text (in case the text is loaded by an AJAX call some time after the dialog was called):

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