Hi.. I'm an ex Windows user, developer, trying to move all my experience and my work to Linux and portable environments :)
Things I'm missing now, are scripts I usually wrote in JScript, VBScript and WSH, that created an InternetExplorer.Application ActiveX object, and told it to Navigate2(), to get all the document via the IWebBrowser interface, letting me to access, via standard DOM, all the contents of the page being browsed, execute scripts, automatically fill forms with data taken from other sources (I.E.: databases, or employee-generated files), and click buttons, to submit. Actually i was able to create in few minutes a fully automatic data entry, data-miner.. Now, the question is: could I do the same with Mozilla on Linux, driven by Perl, Python, BASH, PHP, or something, too? I saw the WWW-Mechanize Perl module, but it doesn't support JavaScript :( That's not good, because many web pages containing forms often do rely on cilent-side data checking and arrangement. I also saw SeaMonkey: a great hack, but is just a hacking tool. I'd like to create scripts which actually do much more than just hack scripts on a web page: read data from somewhere, feed forms, retrieve other data from pages, fill back whatever in databases, files, and so on. IE has a nice port to Linux via Wine, and also WSH has been ported, but a Mozilla-based solution would be more preferable (I also want to integrate my projects with SVG, further) ;) Any suggestion? Has anybody tried to do something like above? I wasn't able to find much info since now.. :( (I hope this is the right newsgroup to post this question, too) Regards. Dario Mannu. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
