[GTALUG] pnc empower browser;

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Proposed New Subject Line For This Topic:

pnc empower browser;

pnc == pick-and-choose;
empower == empower the user to control what part(s) of the web page will 
be rendered / actioned;

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Please see my comments below on Myles's python prototype.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Myles Braithwaite 👾
To: GTALUG Talk
Cc: Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] [browser bitching] Re: Programming languages (in 
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Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
>> Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer Library for Scraping and Testing 
>> the
>> Web   Wednesday 29 November
>> http://www.i-programmer.info/news/87/11344.html
>>
>> With the advent of Single Page Applications, scraping pages for
>> information as well as running automated user interaction tests has
>> become much harder due to its highly dynamic nature. The solution?
>> Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer library.
>> ...
>> There's just one caveat. Since CDP only works with Chromium, Chrome 
>> and
>> other Blink-based browsers, so does Puppeteer. If you require more 
>> than
>> that, then sticking to Selenium and its WebDriver API still remains 
>> the
>> best option..
>> ===
>>
>> The Selenium WebDriver API might be a useful code base to be 
>> considered,
>> in the design of the p'n'c "subversive incremental load" browser ...
>>
>> My 2 cents worth.
>
>Thought this was a interesting idea so I prototyped it in Jupyter:
>
><https://github.com/myles/notebooks/blob/master/Random/2017-12-15-better-web-browser/notebook.ipynb>
>
>My 2 cents worth of programming :-).

Nice work !! I've never had to try to read python code before. Looks 
quite intuitive.

Myles's prototype demonstraes how simple it is to programmatically do in 
python, what a web browser does.

Next step would be for the python app to present the web page to the 
user as a navigable pick-and-choose tree for selective rendering of HTML 
"things".

I don't have a current python installed, and I have vowed to postpone 
all future software dev work until I get moved to debian Linux from Win 
XP. But once there, might be interesting to pursue the pnc empower 
browser idea.

Not sure if python would be the best platform for a serious pnc browser, 
but certainly good for trying out various ideas and libraries. Need some 
GUI power for sure.