Like Marshall, I am also impressed by your reply and attitude.

I am a bit of a WWW::Mechanize expert but not so with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox which I am not sure I ever even used. I have reached for WWW::Selenium but it's been probably four years since I did much with it and my impression is WMF will be more direct and maybe easier; Corion is likely to help you here if you get stuck on some point. That said, I'm reminded that the Selenium IDE will record your interactions and write them into scripts for you. Though apparently they have split Perl off and you have to download it separately now. :( http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

In any case, this code won't be easy unless your Perl, your JS, and your HTML/HTTP chops are solid. Like most web programming, no single part of it is hard but the coagulation of a thousand points of failure makes it so.

All modern browsers have excellent developer tools panels to help you see cause and effect while you whittle the problem to a solution. Stack Overflow is usually an excellent place to get JavaScript answers; though if they are at least slightly related to a Perl issue, they're usually welcome here.

Update: fixed a link.

In reply to Re^2: Fast efficient webpage section monitoring by Your Mother
in thread Fast efficient webpage section monitoring by Marcool

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