Subj : Re: To execute javascript under linux console
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : willknowit@163.com (Stefan Chang)
Date : Sat Nov 08 2003 12:35 pm

Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> wrote in message news:<3FAC2455.6020606@meer.net>...
> Stefan Chang wrote:
> 
> >sorry I am new to netscape javascript development. I want to execute
> >the javascripts within webpages while navigating with a C/C++ or perl
> >program. The OS is redhat9 with mozilla installed.
> >  
> >
> 
> What do you mean by "navigating with a C/C++ or perl program"?  If you 
> mean controlling the browser by telling it to load URLs, you could use 
> xremote.  If you mean embed the browser, you want to ask in the 
> mozilla.embedding newsgroup.
> 
> >I have googled it ,one post said there is a developing environment
> >bundled with KDE called kjsembed, but I have installed full KDE
> >without finding it :(
> >  
> >
> 
> That sounds like nothing to do with Mozilla's JS engines, so you'd be in 
> the wrong group again if you want to use kjs.
> 
> If you want to run JS scripts from the command line, you might try 
> xpcshell, which comes with Mozilla if memory serves.  It's built under 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/src/xpconnect/shell/ and it 
> uses the Mozilla JS engine coded in C, which is the engine nicknamed 
> SpiderMonkey.  Mozilla has a JS engine coded in Java, named Rhino.  You 
> can run that too, if you have a Java runtime environment.   From 
> xpcshell, you can script Mozilla's XPCOM components.  From Rhino, you 
> can script Java classes.
> 
> /be
> 
> >Thanks so much for your help.
> >  
> >

thank you, and sorry for not expressing clearly. I want to develop a
program under linux console environment to navigate webpages with
javascript and javascript-controlled popup windows inside. So, there
should not be mozilla running, only some kind of interpreter or
engine, that's why I did not ask in mozilla.embedding.

Rhino and spidermonkey could enable me to execute js scripts, while I
just do not know how to behave like really navigating, not just parse
the javascript codes and run it inside these js engines.

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