[clug] Automating firefox

[Michael Cohen]

Sam how would this work? As far as I can tell in js you can issue a
window.print() which brings up the print dialog but you can not
actually submit it due to the js security model. Neither can you
select the output filename. Am i far off the mark?

So far i have been playing with the many suggestions on this thread. I
found Xnee which seems sort of able to do what I want except that
there is no way to tell it which windows to target. Most solutions
seem to be flying blind - injecting keystrokes with very little
feedback about which window they are using. Maybe I will patch xnee to
address keystrokes at named windows which would make it more robust
(in case firefox lost focus for some reason).

I think its definitely doable though,
Michael.

2008/1/14 Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au>:
> Michael Cohen <scudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a need in my web application to generate some pdfs from html
> > pages.
>
> If you control the web application, you can include JavaScript to do
> what you want.
>
> An alternative is to use a proxy server that injects JavaScript. See
> Selenium (http://www.openqa.org/selenium/) for an example. It's
> implemented in Java, but it drives browsers using JavaScript.
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