How do I Plugin Chrome into my Application

[Anish]

Hello!

We have an application which scrapes information from websites and
aggregates them. As of now, we use the IE 6 browser to achieve this.
The browser control is written in C++ and the business logic in Java.
We use a JAVA-COM bridge to talk to IE COM objects. We plan to
replace
IE 6 with Chrome. In order to achieve this we would like to know how
we could use Chrome as a browser control. Specifically we are looking
at the following details

1. Is there some documentation and sample code on how to host chrome
as a browser control

2. Is there any available data on how many websites of Financial
Institutions/Banks work without any issues on Chrome.

[Jeremy Orlow]

You probably want to either embed WebKit directly or to use this: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

On 22 February 2010 09:32, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> You probably want to either embed WebKit directly or to use
> this: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Anish <anish.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> We have an application which scrapes information from websites and
>> aggregates them. As of now, we use the IE 6 browser to achieve this.
>> The browser control is written in C++ and the business logic in Java.
>> We use a JAVA-COM bridge to talk to IE COM objects. We plan to
>> replace
>> IE 6 with Chrome. In order to achieve  this we would like to know how
>> we could use Chrome as a browser control. Specifically we are looking
>> at the following details
>>
>> 1. Is there some documentation and sample code on how to host chrome
>> as a browser control
>>
>> 2. Is there any available data on how many websites of Financial
>> Institutions/Banks work without any issues on Chrome.

You may be interested in WebDriver (Selenium):
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/ - it has a nice Java wrapper API
around actions in Chrome, a sample application is available at
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted

[Amit Joshi]

Google Chrome Frame (http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/) exposes an ActiveX control that is similar to mshtml that can be used for embedding chrome. However, one caveat is that the only way to access the DOM is using a asynchronous postMessage like API rather than direct synchronous access using IHTMLDocument2.

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[Anish Philip]

Sorry I missed mentioning that we want to stay away from COM. We've run it lot of problems with its squeaky memory management. That criteria automatically rules out Google Chrome Frame!

Anish

[Anish Philip]

I went through CEF and found it interesting.  The interactions with the browser inside our application could be divided into the following 

1. Events coming from the browser - NavigateComplete, DocumentComplete et al

2. Traversal and Operations on the DOM

3. Navigations on the Page - click, get et al

4. Cookie Access

5. Message Box and Internet Error Dialog Handling

After going through the documentation and the source for the client code I guess we only have support for 1 and 3 above. I wanted to check if we can use CEF to access the DOM and for operations 4 and 5. 

Thanks,

Anish

[Marshall Greenblatt]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Anish Philip <anish.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

I went through CEF and found it interesting.  The interactions with the browser inside our application could be divided into the following 

1. Events coming from the browser - NavigateComplete, DocumentComplete et al

2. Traversal and Operations on the DOM

3. Navigations on the Page - click, get et al

4. Cookie Access

5. Message Box and Internet Error Dialog Handling

After going through the documentation and the source for the client code I guess we only have support for 1 and 3 above. I wanted to check if we can use CEF to access the DOM and for operations 4 and 5. 

I'll continue this discussion on the CEF forum:

http://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=95
 

[Alex Russell]

Chrome Frame also exposes an NPAPI interface, if that's more
palatable, although it sort of seems like a wash given your concerns.

Regards