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Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very scriptable
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Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very scriptable


  • Subject: Re: which webbrowser (apart from safari) is very scriptable
  • From: Kevin Meaney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:37:40 +0100

From my other development interests I have been looking into Apple's WebKit, and Apple's/opens source WebCore and JavaScriptCore.

From what I have read and understood, OmniWeb is probably the only browser that will support accessing the Document Object Model (DOM) for some time. Safari may also be able to do it some time in the future since the Safari developers are obviously talking to the webcore/javascriptcore developers.

Apple has been promising a stable public interface for WebCore for quite some time now and without the delivery of it accessing the WebCore Document Object Model (DOM) is going to be difficult, plus dealing with updates of WebCore will be very difficult because all of the interface can change. Any web browser that uses WebKit will not have access to the DOM since WebKit doesn't provide access to WebCore.

Omni has made the effort to create their own interface for WebCore and support this which gives them full access to the DOM. If that is the functionality you want then I think Omni is your best chance for putting on the pressure.

Kevin
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