On 5/2/17, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
> Here is a workable solution: Headless Chrome
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> https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
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> This HN thread has some interesting things we could take inspiration from.
>
> We can drive it from Pharo and grab the screen, and then show that in a
> Morph. Then capture clicks and send then to the headless chrome.
>
> Will not do everything, but can be decent.

+1
Thanks for this link, Phil.

Seems to be an exercise with some OSProcess calls.

The result might as well have an application for the testing of web
site rendering.

Though there are many tools (e.g. http://phantomjs.org/) which do this
it is convenient to do the scripting in Smalltalk.

--Hannes


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> Phil
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:37 PM, askoh <askoh@askoh.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. It is a novel way of remote desktop. Perhaps Craig can tell if it
>> can
>> do
>> the following.
>> I want to go to a web page, select a body of text and have Smalltalk code
>> analyze the text in some way and return the answer in the browser or in
>> the
>> Smalltalk app or file output. There should be two-way communication
>> between
>> app and browser. I would like to do live debugging too.
>>
>> Aik-Siong Koh
>>
>>
>> Hi Askoh,
>>
>>�� �� are you also aware of Snowglobe
>> https://thiscontext.com/2016/10/31/app-streaming-with-snowglobe/ ?�� This
>> allows one to use a standard Smalltalk image running on the native Cog VM
>> to
>> render in a web browser.
>>
>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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