This is damn clever!
The idea is actually courtesy of Chris Brannon,
because we were once emailing briefly about this thing
called MozRepl. I took it from there and found
bits of javascript on that idea. So thank you Chris!
I know there are security issues, and you should
not allow arbitrary strings to get run as code.
I assumed this feature was too underground to mention,
or I may have mentioned it sooner. Grin.
We could use my code for this, but the output
has not been edbrowzised or carved into lines.
I don't bring it back into an edbrowse buffer.
So the output could be a pain in the butt at
the moment, but I could give you what I have
and you could optimize it.
It also depends on what you echo.
Glad we might do this - it has certainly been
invaluable for me,
Kevin
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Karl Dahlke wrote:
Kevin wrote me in a pm, and I hope he doesn't mind me relaying here...
I created a crude JS console within edbrowse,
for use especially on getting the DOM to work.
I noticed that javaParseExecute will accept any string,
so I hooked into twoLetter, used a letter that wasn't in
use, and brought querying of objects into the edbrowse
command line, like...
* document.childNodes.length
23
* var blah = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT")
ok
* blah.length
25
* blah[5].name
price_range
This is damn clever!
I mean really.
I'm thinking it should be part of the real program,
not as anything we would advertise, not a feature for the public,
but like the higher levels of db, just something for us.
What do others think of this idea?
It would have to be a 2 letter or multi letter command that casual users
wouldn't stumble on by accident. Maybe jsca for javascript comand access.
Imagine stopping in the middle of a web page and poking around the dom.
For debugging, set a variable like innerHTML and see if the side effects really
happen.
Or like yesterday I had a nasty email I wanted to unsubscribe from,
cause its just marketing crap,
and I pushed the button and js stopped because something
was missing in the dom.
Imagine I went to the js console and just put an object there, or whatever,
so js would be happy and send on my unsubscribe request.
That would be cool.
This was one of those forms that can't be done without js by the way,
so for now I'm still subscribed to their shit.
anyways, do people think a backdoor to the dom would be useful for us,
assuming the public wouldn't fall through it accidentally,
and if yes then perhaps Kevin you could send me a patch,
cause it sounds like you've already done most of the work.
Karl Dahlke
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