Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very well scriptable?
Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very well scriptable?
- Subject: Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very well scriptable?
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:11:29 -0700
At 01:06p +0200 04/07/2004, Brennan didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
On 6/4/04 at 01:50, Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden> wrote:
> What precisely are your scripting requirements? AFAIK, every Mac
> browser (other than Safari) supports the GURLGURL (get url) event.
> What more do you need?
Phew, where do I start?
I want an object model for tabs, preferences, bookmarks, history,
downloads, _ACTIVITY_, encoding etc.
Me too. As for activity, I want page loading to be attachable, so
that a script could fix bad pages (i guess page parsing attachable
and an editable cache).
I'd also like to see commands for such things as 'reload',
Well you can do that one already.
'view source',
In what sense?
coercions for rtf, styled text and plain text.
Well if we had it as styled, we could do the coercions elsewhere.
Put simply, I want my Applescripts to be able to get at all the things
that Javascript can't touch.
The perfect implementation would even provide a 'peer' object model for a
rendered page, so that we could (for example) pull out a table without
having to parse any HTML code.
Imagine being able to use expressions like
url of every image of frontmost tab of window 1 whose width > 100
I, too, want an AppleScriptable DOM. Imagine being able to change
every fixed-width page into a 100%-width page. OmniWeb has always had
an editable cache; I would love to be able to script that.
I have wanted these kinds of features for ever, and am amazed that no
browser developer has stepped up to the plate. I would even use Internet
Explorer (going against my ideology) if it offered features like this.
I've wanted them too. But this is a wishlist; your question sounded
like you were looking for something which already exists. I think
perhaps browser developers are too busy playing catch-up with
so-called "Web standards" to spend time on such things. Who knows,
maybe WebCore will finally help developers to focus on the
application itself for a change...
-W
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