Re: Plugin for changing html before displaying it

Subject: Re: Plugin for changing html before displaying it

From: Ruotger Skupin <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:56:17 +0200

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Hi Renaud,

thanks for these suggestions.

I'm not sure that I made this point clear enough, but I don't want to use a webview in my own program. I want to write a plugin for Safari (optionally OmniWeb and others) that changes the html content before Safari (OmniWeb, ...) renders it.

Basically I have no idea, if it is possible for a plugin to get every loaded page in the first place. It seems you have to register a MIME type or rely on <embed> tags.

Ruotger

Am 05.10.2006 um 16:19 schrieb Renaud Molla:

Hi,
well i don't really know if it would work, but maybe this is the beginning of an idea,
i guess the datasource is immutable, ie you can't replace the data that's being downloaded on the fly (am I wrong? if so, then change it there)
i know you can set a webview in an editing mode, therefore you can change it's structure once it's loaded.
So, maybe you could try altering the DOM tree once it's loaded, but I don't know if it is possible actually....
I would give a look at this and how one edits the html in a webview.

Regards.

On Oct 5, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Ruotger Skupin wrote:

Hi,

I would like to build a plug-in, that parses and changes a html page before WebKit displays it. In particular I would like to scan for keywords and change them to a hyperlink. This should work on any (well, most...) websites out in the wild.

Is that possible at all with WebKit browsers?

Any tips on where to start reading for a steep learning curve?
(I already read "Web Kit Plug-in Programming Topics" and had a look into "Web Kit Objective-C Programming Guide")

Ruotger

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