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timo
Rendering HTML / Browser
Apr 29th, 2009, 3:27am  
hello

I'm working on an installation where I'm generating data out of the html code of websites. The basic idea is that someone can sit down at a computer and surf the web while the code of the websites he surfs to generates some data to trigger things.
The analysing part seems not to be a big problem, I will either use processing.org/learning/libraries/httpclient.html or proHTML.
But I don't know how to show a browser to the user of the installation, the best thing would be if I could render the html in Processing, but I did not find a lot of information. This seems to be a solution;
workshop.evolutionzone.com/2007/08/30/jdic-embedding-a-web-browser-in-java/
but it seems to be problematic on mac
I'm very thankful for every hint or idea!

(sorry for the links, seems like I can't post active links)
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seltar
Re: Rendering HTML / Browser
Reply #1 - Apr 29th, 2009, 6:24am  
or you can make a website to browse other website, (with a toolbar attached to the top, like google images), and have that toolbar feed your project-data to processing with javascript.
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timo
Re: Rendering HTML / Browser
Reply #2 - Apr 30th, 2009, 2:29am  
seltar wrote on Apr 29th, 2009, 6:24am:
or you can make a website to browse other website, (with a toolbar attached to the top, like google images), and have that toolbar feed your project-data to processing with javascript.

thank you very much! this would be a possibility, but having everything in the processing scetch would be cooler, any ideas for doing this
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seltar
Re: Rendering HTML / Browser
Reply #3 - Apr 30th, 2009, 4:05am  
the code at the bottom of this thread (http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?t=149187) worked.. but no css or javascript..
or you can try Lobo, the opensource java browser to get a better result..
http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp

or browse sourceforge for other alternatives to Lobo.

JRex is a possibility.. somebody should check that out, and make a wrapper for Processing
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Re: Rendering HTML / Browser
Reply #4 - Apr 30th, 2009, 6:11am  
Lobo is an interesting project. I see they have Cobra: Java HTML Renderer & Parser, the parsing and display engine, which might be the thing to embed in the applet (but I doubt it is simple or small!).

JRex is indeed another component, apparently leveraging directly the Gecko engine, a bit like JDIC does.
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