Re: Any interest in an HTML DOM in C / C# / similar? (was Re: State of the AJAX Union)

2006-11-23 Thread Christopher Hart
For one particular application, I need the speed of Perl's regex engine and I have not been able to match it in C# or even with limited attempts using C++ and Boost's regex library. So, regardless of feature availability on other platforms, I'm going to continue pursuing DOM & JS functionality in

Any interest in an HTML DOM in C / C# / similar? (was Re: State of the AJAX Union)

2006-11-23 Thread John J Lee
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote: Would an "easier" (yet still monumental) starting point be to tackle the DOM implementation independent of a JS engine? [...] This seems like a great open source project - it's way too much to handle for most individual developers, but I think could

Re: State of the AJAX Union

2006-11-23 Thread John J Lee
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote: I agree that folks have been talking about JS for a long time, and that it's frustrating, but what I'm suggesting is that we need to tackle a different problem first. [...] An HTML DOM implemention is a necessary part of JS support, sure (though St

Re: State of the AJAX Union

2006-11-23 Thread John J Lee
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote: I'm willing to take a crack at laying out a vision, high level objectives and some implementation requirements based on my experiences and see how [...] Everyone who's seriously interested is willing to do that. Indeed, many have surely done that

Re: State of the AJAX Union

2006-11-23 Thread John J Lee
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, apv wrote: I've also been interested for a long time and tried to work on this 2 years ago but didn't get far enough to bother trying to release anything. [...] I would gladly throw down if there was a group effort with a real plan. I'm not the right hacker to lead this pr

Re: Mechanize && meta="Refresh"

2006-11-23 Thread Carl A. Schreiber
Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 19:12 schrieb Andy Lester: > On Nov 23, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Carl A. Schreiber wrote: > > How do I get beyond the that meta="Refresh" page. > > I konw the answer of Andy Lester in the archive, that > > "The address of the META REFRESH should be available to you in the

Re: Mechanize && meta="Refresh"

2006-11-23 Thread Andy Lester
On Nov 23, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Carl A. Schreiber wrote: How do I get beyond the that meta="Refresh" page. I konw the answer of Andy Lester in the archive, that "The address of the META REFRESH should be available to you in the $mech->links() method." Yes it is - as you can see below, but how shou

Mechanize && meta="Refresh"

2006-11-23 Thread Carl A. Schreiber
Hi, How do I get beyond the that meta="Refresh" page. I konw the answer of Andy Lester in the archive, that "The address of the META REFRESH should be available to you in the $mech->links() method." Yes it is - as you can see below, but how should I use it, all what I tried either loads

Finding CPAN modules (was Re: libwww-perl-5.805 install problems)

2006-11-23 Thread Jacinta Richardson
http://search.cpan.org URI: http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/URI-1.35/URI.pm HTML::Parser: http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.55/Parser.pm and I'll let you do your own search (I promise it will work) for Compress::Zlib. All the best, J PS: By the way, if you run Linu