PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool

Re:PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, Java... by olalonde on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @02:17AM (#2142482)

What is meant by "headless"?

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Re:PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, Java... by spicyj on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @02:26AM (#2142498)

Presumably you don't see the WebKit window or anything like that; it runs invisibly and doesn't require any window server.

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Re:PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, Java... by regularfry on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @10:15AM (#2143500)

You don't need a desktop environment, so it can run without ancilliary support on a server.

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