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firefox.coder
I'm writing code that plays back web transactions by acting like a real
user. I'm currently trying to get this working in Mozilla-based
browsers. I simulate mouse clicks with the following code (where node
is the element I'm sending the click to):
var evt = node.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, node.ownerDocument.defaultView,
1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
node.dispatchEvent(evt);
This works in almost all cases, links, buttons, images within links,
etc.
Starting with Firefox 1.5, this stopped working on simple popups
(prompt, confirm, alert, basic auth) It worked on Firefox 1.0.x and
Mozilla 1.7.2. What's strange is that it has actually worked in
Firefox 1.5 a few times but I have no idea why. I've probably tried it
at least 50 times while trying to debug.
Another case is gmail. I've never gotten this to work when I want to
simulate a click on an email message in gmail. I'm sure that I've got
the right node during playback, but the click doesn't do anything. I'm
not sure if gmail is doing something funny on the page or if there's
some problem with this being in an iframe which is in a frame. My code
handles Frames and IFrames just fine on other web sites.
In the cases where this doesn't work, there is no exception or
javascript error. The function keeps executing like nothing happened.
user. I'm currently trying to get this working in Mozilla-based
browsers. I simulate mouse clicks with the following code (where node
is the element I'm sending the click to):
var evt = node.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, node.ownerDocument.defaultView,
1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
node.dispatchEvent(evt);
This works in almost all cases, links, buttons, images within links,
etc.
Starting with Firefox 1.5, this stopped working on simple popups
(prompt, confirm, alert, basic auth) It worked on Firefox 1.0.x and
Mozilla 1.7.2. What's strange is that it has actually worked in
Firefox 1.5 a few times but I have no idea why. I've probably tried it
at least 50 times while trying to debug.
Another case is gmail. I've never gotten this to work when I want to
simulate a click on an email message in gmail. I'm sure that I've got
the right node during playback, but the click doesn't do anything. I'm
not sure if gmail is doing something funny on the page or if there's
some problem with this being in an iframe which is in a frame. My code
handles Frames and IFrames just fine on other web sites.
In the cases where this doesn't work, there is no exception or
javascript error. The function keeps executing like nothing happened.