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It has a few lingering bugs (for instance, some issues with file uploads), but overall, it's a nice improvement over 1.9.x. The JavaScript engine is much newer and the rendering is improved.
Excellent! I have used PhantomJS for web scraping but as that is always a gray area of legality. I'd love to hear any other major uses you've seen it used for. I always love it when I find that a tool I'm using can be used for other purposes.
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I have solved this problem by using SlimerJS as an alternative.
Yeah, unfortunately we can't install that one on our build box, I believe because it needs X11. (As the page says it is not "totally headless")
If you use casperjs you can modify the executable (it's python) and change "'default_exec' : 'slimerjs'" into "'default_exec' : 'xvfb-run slimerjs'"
Excellent! I have used PhantomJS for web scraping but as that is always a gray area of legality. I'd love to hear any other major uses you've seen it used for. I always love it when I find that a tool I'm using can be used for other purposes.
By hostile I mean that the legacy system had no API, was implemented using obfuscated code, and resisted being driven by URLs.
We needed to integrate with it to create documents, calendar appointments, etc. in the legacy system, based on stuff that was happening in the newer system we were building.
We ended up using PhantomJS to implement a module that drove the legacy system via its HTML user interface -- pushing buttons, selecting meeting participants from the HTML select tags, submitting forms, etc.
Although that sounds (and is!) hacky as hell, it worked flawlessly 100% of the time. PhantomJS was a gift from the gods.