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p0kah
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 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: browser automation |
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Hi guys,
I love ahk, I have made a lot of useful script with it.
The only problem with it is:
You cannot automate browser operations.
it is a pain in the ass to automate scraping of website with ahk.
What I am suggesting is to create a firefox extension to automate firefox, I tried with Imacro but it really sucks, it doesn't even support conditional statements (if then else).
thank you for reading my post.
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SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish
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Lexikos
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Scratch
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Browser Automation support, whether native, by library and or wrapper imho should not be restricted to a specific browser, the wrapper should contain common function like OpenTab, read out wich browser and version number, lookup in translation table and call the appropiate function for that browser
Could become one helluve a wrapper to support all browsers though... |
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TheIrishThug
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| Scratch wrote: | | Browser Automation support, whether native, by library and or wrapper imho should not be restricted to a specific browser, the wrapper should contain common function like OpenTab, read out wich browser and version number, lookup in translation table and call the appropiate function for that browser |
Another way to construct the library would just to be to define the interface as a wrapper api. Everyone would just use OpenTab or CloseTab and then below the interface would sit a "plugin" for the specific browser. The user doesn't care what the browser specific code is, just that the appropriate event occurs when the api is called. This way, if the user knows they are only ever going to need FF and IE, they don't need to load the extra weight to do Opera or Safari. |
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tank
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Scratch wrote: | Browser Automation support, whether native, by library and or wrapper imho should not be restricted to a specific browser, the wrapper should contain common function like OpenTab, read out wich browser and version number, lookup in translation table and call the appropiate function for that browser
Could become one helluve a wrapper to support all browsers though... |
the problem with these kinds of statements is the misguided beleife there are only a few browser out there
but stepping back to tabs
IE6 is still quite common place what about that
ther are literally hundreds of browsers out there there would not be any feasable way to just wrap all browsers
So yes wrappers would be and necesarily are browser specific
and yes there are alot of way to exchange http headers on this forum
both with or without a browser.
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ScottMattes
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IE6 - just say NO
I recently saw a website that dealt with this issue, it gave code to put up a polite 'sorry, but we don't do IE6 because it is crappy' msg, with pointers to where they could download IE7, Opera, Firefox, Chrome
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tank
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Unfortunately in a consumer world your user is likely to just decide not to do business with you
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