Adrian Holovaty is looking for information on how to run a state of the art browser engine in a headless fashion. Basically he wants programmatic access to all of the DOM information that you can get at through Firebug (or any decent DOM inspector).
I don’t know what he’s using it for, but you could use such a system to write an awesome testing tool. I suspect the overhead would not be worth it for most projects.
There are already a bunch of good ideas in the comments. Definitely worth reading.
May 2, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Presumably for improving the state of their screen scrapers.
May 3, 2008 at 11:12 am
I believe the guys at Wesabe have been running XULRunner on the server side to replay screen macros on bank websites. Brian Donovan and/or Tim Mason might be good guys to contact.