Re: Screenscraping w/ Mozilla or Firefox
"Justin Wood (Callek)" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
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Thomas Gagne wrote: > Martin Honnen wrote: > >> >> >> Thomas Gagne wrote: >> >> >>> I've read about XPCOM but that sounds more like a mechanism for >>> extending the browsers than it does a way to script them. >> >> >> >> The browser is an application composed of XPCOM components. With the >> help of XPConnect XPCOM components can be scripted with JavaScript. >> But that script needs to be part of the the application as far as I >> understand while you seem to be looking for a way to script the whole >> application from outside. I don't know whether this is possible, maybe >> someone else is able to give a definite answer on that. >> > I'll look into XPConnect, but you're correct in that I want to script > the entire application. I wonder what do you need in terms of a "scripted application" what features must run/work, where is the application to be stored (on a server, on a users screen, etc.) There is --remote but I'm not too sure on that's use, or if it would cover your uses (and afaik it only works when a browser instance is already open) ~Justin Wood