Re: [Gmailagent-devel] Re: libgmail broken

[Stas Z <sta...@gm...>]

On 9/12/05, Waseem S. Daher <wd...@mi...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:40 +0200, Stas Z wrote:
> > > > We need javascript Python bindings :-)

> I was more being facetious than anything else -- I'm not totally
> convinced there's an easy way to handle these gmail changes totally
> agnostically. I mean, I guess gmail tells us what 'objects' correspond
> to what variable names, in javascript, but there's nothing really to say
> that those variable names won't change (and if they do, we need to
> rewrite some code), right?
You right, I'm wrong. I've warned you about my knowledge of javascript :-)
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> I guess we could try to parse some javascript in the Python, but I guess
> I don't see what's to be gained from doing it. (Though it's probably
> that I just don't understand what's going on with what you're proposing)

My line of thinking was something like this:
- Gmail changes it's pages.
- libgmail is broken.
- Firefox, or any other browser, is not broken.
 - Why?
- Because firefox parses the webpages while libgmail hacks into them
  with regexp etc.

So I was thinking about some way to "run" the javascript rather then trying=
 to
get the information out of it.
Yeah, I realize that running javascript is something only done by
lunatics, it's just a thought :-)

After googling for "Python parsing javascript" I think I will forget
my parsing ideas.

Stas =20

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