It's possible that we are all focusing too much on your solution rather than on your requirements. As I understand it, you are looking for a browser plugin instead of doing this server-side, because:

  1. need to interact with client components
  2. would prefer to use the browser as an interface

Additionally, you are allowed to install things on the client side, so you are not limited to what the browser supports, natively.

If I understand your requirements correctly, there's another option: do all of the work server-side, on the client's machine. Run a little web-server locally on the machine and interact with it with the browser.

Although this may not be what you had in mind, it does meet the requirements as I've restated them above. I have found this technique to be useful in the past (because I'm lousy with UIs, and marginally better with HTML.

G. Wade

In reply to Re: Perl Browser Plugins by gwadej
in thread Perl Browser Plugins by bkiahg

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