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From: Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:09:11PM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I've looked for one and I think someone did something based around a gtk-less
> > webkit, but I'm not sure how maintained (or maintainable) it is.
> 
> Yeah, I heard something about a headless webkit a while back, but I
> never tracked it down.
> Also, a friend of mine is working on a console browser that uses firefox
> as its backend.  It hooks into firefox via mozrepl.  Here's the brief
> description of mozrepl:
> 
> <quote>
> MozRepl lets you program Firefox and other Mozilla-based applications from the
> inside using a telnet client.
> </quote>
> 
> You still have to run firefox itself, but for those of us who don't care
> to spin up a GUI, you can run it under xvfb, which is a virtual X
> server.

I've played with xvfb in the past, never really got it to work particularly well though.
At any rate, it seems an aweful lot to get javascript and dom working,
and would make edbrowse basicly just a firefox client.
I've got no problem with using something like your friend's work,
but I'd rather not take edbrowse in this direction if at all avoidable.
Also do you know if iceweasel has this feature?

Cheers,
Adam.