On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote:
I know there is a rich history of challenges implementing any kind of
JavaScript interpretation using Mechanize or any other web
scripting/automation utility, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to
focus on "Mechanizing" AJAX?
I realize this would take at least some degree of JavaScript interpretation
and most likely some kind of internal DOM representation to maintain the
No doubt you could profitably concentrate your implementation / bug-fixing
effort on the DOM features you're interested in, but I don't think there's
any terribly obvious closed subset of the DOM &c. that you could implement
and save yourself lots of work as compared with implementing the full
monty.
state of the page, and that it's probably extraordinarily challenging.
Probably only extraordinarily challenging in that it involves lots of work
-- that's why nobody has done it :-)
Nonetheless, with the increasing popularity of AJAX, it seems like it
eventually needs to be done. I'm watching more and more of the sites I've
written automation for slowly migrate to AJAX and it's getting increasingly
difficult to work around these designs.
[...]
Whether or not it "needs" to be done, it won't be, unless somebody steps
up to do it.
John
