Here's a question for you web gurus: what I want to do is to control a web
browser programmatically, specifically to tell an open browser window to open
a new URL automagically rather than typing it in. It could be any Linux
browser: Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera - maybe even Lynx.
I've tried Googling this subject but it's a toughie because most of the
returns are on using a browser to perform RPC, not "remote control" of a
browser. Well, it actually wouldn't be "remote control" but I didn't know
what else to call it in the search. :-) I've looked at browser specific
howto's for Mozilla and Galeon but I'm not sure where to find the
developer-type info rather than the user-type info. I
'm vaguely familiar with things like CORBA and SOAP but I'm under the
impression that you use those to communicate with a server somewhere, not to
manipulate a local web client. I know the "remote control" functionality
must be possible because somebody's advertising a shareware product called
JENNA which is supposed to support such browser enhancements as "slide show
mode." (Or maybe it's just auto-generating an HTML or XML or Javascript file
which you then have to load manually?) I'd appreciate the slightest hint
to point me in the right direction - perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology.
Many thanks in advance!
Vaughn Treude
Nakota Software, Inc.
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