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0 pointsserve_yay11y ago0 comments

Yes, my team ran directly into the old webkit version issue as well. Does this 2.0 still use an old WebKit? Having trouble finding out...

Edit: it appears to be WebKit 538.1, from May 2014. But this is based on a readme which is pretty old, so it could be outdated info

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pothibo11y ago

It uses a new version of Webkit(That includes DOM Mutation Events IIRC). But I believe that they always ship with their own version of webkit, which will always be behind.

For PhantomJS 2.0, I think they ship with a version of webkit that is > 6 months old.

warfangle11y ago

They don't ship with their own version of webkit; they use qtwebkit (or at least used to?).

simlevesque11y ago

I have solved this problem by using SlimerJS as an alternative.

serve_yayOP11y ago

Yeah, unfortunately we can't install that one on our build box, I believe because it needs X11. (As the page says it is not "totally headless")

simlevesque11y ago

You are mistaken. You can install SlimerJS on a box without X11. You must install Xvfb use it like this : xvfb-run slimerjs script.js

If you use casperjs you can modify the executable (it's python) and change "'default_exec' : 'slimerjs'" into "'default_exec' : 'xvfb-run slimerjs'"

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0 pointsserve_yay11y ago0 comments

Yes, my team ran directly into the old webkit version issue as well. Does this 2.0 still use an old WebKit? Having trouble finding out...

Edit: it appears to be WebKit 538.1, from May 2014. But this is based on a readme which is pretty old, so it could be outdated info

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pothibo11y ago

It uses a new version of Webkit(That includes DOM Mutation Events IIRC). But I believe that they always ship with their own version of webkit, which will always be behind.

For PhantomJS 2.0, I think they ship with a version of webkit that is > 6 months old.

warfangle11y ago

They don't ship with their own version of webkit; they use qtwebkit (or at least used to?).

simlevesque11y ago

I have solved this problem by using SlimerJS as an alternative.

serve_yayOP11y ago

Yeah, unfortunately we can't install that one on our build box, I believe because it needs X11. (As the page says it is not "totally headless")

simlevesque11y ago

You are mistaken. You can install SlimerJS on a box without X11. You must install Xvfb use it like this : xvfb-run slimerjs script.js

If you use casperjs you can modify the executable (it's python) and change "'default_exec' : 'slimerjs'" into "'default_exec' : 'xvfb-run slimerjs'"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse