[GTALUG] pnc empower browser;

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Brief comments below.

Steve

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From: Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk
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Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
>> I haven't read the article yet, but I always see people resorting to
>> selenium, when other tools seem like they might have less overhead. 
>> Is
>> there any mention of phantomjs? http://phantomjs.org/
>
>I've used it a couple of times, generating PDFs from a web page in PHP
>and using it like I would Selenium in Node. I've never really thought 
>of
>using it with Python but I just found this SO answer that says you can
>use it as a WebDriver in Selenium:
><https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13287490/is-there-a-way-to-use-phantomjs-in-python>.
>So I'm definitely going to start using it.
>
>Thanks for helping me see stuff from a different angle.

PhantomJS looks quite potent.

Seems a little ironic, that the predecessor discussion thread was 
badmouthing javascript, when it turns out that JS seems to offer 
(unsurprisingly, I guess) lots of rich functionality of potential use in 
a pnc empower browser.

I expect that a production version of a pnc browser would be delivered 
as an installable binary (not as e.g. python source code). So long as 
all the JS programming used is built in to the pnc browser's binary 
installation package, this would e,iminate the foolishmess of repeatedly 
fetching the JS (used directly by pnc) dynamically via the Internet.