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Has anyone built a WaaS yet ? (Web-browser as a service.)
wbaas.io "web browser as a service"
Support like say the 5 major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ...), provide an API and charge like ~xx euro/month.
The biggest challenge is probably to make it secure as one builds in essence a DOS proxy?
For all of you old fogies working on angular 1 apps and are running browser tests with karma you can run your tests in firefox with headless mode with a customer launcher. Add the snippet below to your karma conf ``` browsers: ['FirefoxHeadless'], customLaunchers: { FirefoxHeadless: { base: 'Firefox', flags: [ '-headless', ], }, }, ``` Note you need to be running the beta version of firefox, I needed to download it f…
I use karma. Do only Angular 1 folks use it? What does everyone else use for browser tests?
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Automated integration/regression tests is a pretty big use case. You spin up a copy of your server, point the headless browser at it, run some JavaScript to simulate some user interactions, and verify the page contains the right strings / screenshot doesn't deviate too much from a golden image. I guess the ELI5 way of saying that would be: "Making sure your website still works." People also headless browsers for cont…
So an ELI5 of everything you said would be: Putting the website through user actions in a firefox browser and recording/capturing/documenting the results headlessly. Headless version allows you to go through hundreds of results in the background.
Can you download files in headless Firefox or Chrome?
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=696481
Soon.
In the interim I've been using standard C# web requests and using the cookies from the ChromeDriver. Doesn't work for downloads where it is not a direct link unfortunately.
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If you need professional typesetting from HTML+CSS, Prince XML is still king, I'm pretty sure. It can be invoked & run heedlessly. It also supports page-oriented CSS declarations and variables, like headers, footers, page numbers, etc.
What are the features that make Prince XML better than headless chrome? Prince XML is not open source or cheap.
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F11 is full screen, not headless. Headless means you can't see the browser or the website content, it's built for scripting purposes (automated web testing and web scraping). The only time you can see the content is if your script requests a screen capture.
I know what headless means, but if fairpx is really referring to headless (he seems to have changed his post) then I have no idea what this means: > where the UI appears when you need it, intuitively, even when NOT in full screen or how it relates to a headless browser.
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If you need professional typesetting from HTML+CSS, Prince XML is still king, I'm pretty sure. It can be invoked & run heedlessly. It also supports page-oriented CSS declarations and variables, like headers, footers, page numbers, etc.
What are the features that make Prince XML better than headless chrome? Prince XML is not open source or cheap.
Stuff looks like it was created with QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.
NeWS, Display PostScript, Quartz all come to mind. I know you can save webpages as PDF documents, but I am thinking of something that is like PDF but closer to HTML-just more closely coupled to what is being displayed, and not whatever arbitrary style or JavaScript abuse the developer decided on.
Even just outputing some neat, canonical HTML based on the state of the page once everything is loaded would be helpful, so that the bitmap could later be combined in some kind of new document format.
For all of you old fogies working on angular 1 apps and are running browser tests with karma you can run your tests in firefox with headless mode with a customer launcher. Add the snippet below to your karma conf ``` browsers: ['FirefoxHeadless'], customLaunchers: { FirefoxHeadless: { base: 'Firefox', flags: [ '-headless', ], }, }, ``` Note you need to be running the beta version of firefox, I needed to download it f…
Where does one find a customer launcher?
Has anyone built a WaaS yet ? (Web-browser as a service.)
I think if done right there would be a market (if this is actually the right direction and useful is another question). wbaas.io "web browser as a service" Support like say the 5 major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ...), provide an API and charge like ~xx euro/month. The biggest challenge is probably to make it secure as one builds in essence a DOS proxy?