Re: [MacPerl] Re: mini-browser in PERL

[Yuemo Zeng <zeng0007@tc.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Webmaster wrote:

> lauzzana@netcom.com (Raymond Lauzzana) writes:
> >Has anyone built a mini-browser in PERL that is
> >independent of HTTP, etc. In otherwords it would
> >work more or less like hypercard.
> .>
> >It would be extremely useful for debugging
> >PERL scripts that generate HTML on the fly
> >without connecting to the network.
> 
> Whoever has an answer, please do post to the group, or at least CC me. I'd
> be very interested in knowing about this.
> 

I may not fully understand the question. Here are some of my thoughts:

1. Every broswer is some kind of independent on the HTTP, you can view 
HTML file locally.

2. If a browser is too mini,  it may not support the tables, frames, etc.

3. To test CGI perl scripts, you need not connect to the network. You 
could input the data otherwise filled in forms or whatever. The only 
drawback is that you can not get server and client related envronment 
variables. But the proposed mini-browser can not either.

4. Maybe you need more memory to run the perl and browser at the same 
time. I absolutely agree that those brosers take too much memory. Only in 
this case you may need a mini-browser.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!



Yuemo Zeng
zeng0007@tc.umn.edu
http://dragon.labmed.umn.edu/~zeng/
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