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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by BinaryIdiot on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:28PM (#16512936)
I really hope Microsoft offers a headless IE / Edge at some point. It would be amazing to be able to use all 3 major browsers like this. Heck, get Safari in there too (though I feel like it should be doable with WebKit already).
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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by poizan42 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @01:21AM (#16513546)
Huh? They have had the WebBrowser ActiveX control since IE3 I think. That works as headless as you get on Windows.
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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by BinaryIdiot on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:25AM (#16514312)
Not quite. It's my understanding it's not as up to date or equivalent to the latest IE. When I tried looking around I just got a lot of confusing information about the control, how it applies (or doesn't) traditional IE hacks, etc.

Though I could be wrong but it didn't seem like an equivalent to headless chrome or firefox.

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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by poizan42 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:15AM (#16514594)
That is not correct, it just runs in compatibility mode by default, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2015/01/12/control...
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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by luisrudge on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:55AM (#16513487)
they have webdriver support. Is that enough? I'm not sure what's the difference between headless and webdriver (if any) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/23/bringing-auto...
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Re:PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development by alxlu on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:09AM (#16513734)
Running Edge with webdriver still includes the GUI.
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