On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:45 PM, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/2/17, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is a workable solution: Headless Chrome
> >
> > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
> >
> > This HN thread has some interesting things we could take inspiration
> from.
> >
> > We can drive it from Pharo and grab the screen, and then show that in a
> > Morph. Then capture clicks and send then to the headless chrome.
> >
> > Will not do everything, but can be decent.
>
> +1
> Thanks for this link, Phil.
>
> Seems to be an exercise with some OSProcess calls.
>

More like REST calls ( https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html
) against chromedriver executable driving headless chrome.

>
> The result might as well have an application for the testing of web
> site rendering.
>
> Though there are many tools (e.g. http://phantomjs.org/) which do this
> it is convenient to do the scripting in Smalltalk.
>

PhantomJS maintainer stepped down upon the news of ChromeHeadless becoming
available.

Phil

>
> --Hannes
>
>
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:37 PM, askoh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes. It is a novel way of remote desktop. Perhaps Craig can tell if it
> >> can
> >> do
> >> the following.
> >> I want to go to a web page, select a body of text and have Smalltalk
> code
> >> analyze the text in some way and return the answer in the browser or in
> >> the
> >> Smalltalk app or file output. There should be two-way communication
> >> between
> >> app and browser. I would like to do live debugging too.
> >>
> >> Aik-Siong Koh
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Askoh,
> >>
> >>    are you also aware of Snowglobe
> >> https://thiscontext.com/2016/10/31/app-streaming-with-snowglobe/ ?
> This
> >> allows one to use a standard Smalltalk image running on the native Cog
> VM
> >> to
> >> render in a web browser.
> >>
> >> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/
> >> Smalltalk-Internet-Browser-tp4944879p4944998.html
> >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at
> >> Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

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