Re^2: Best way to parse/evaluate HTML page contents for apparent image size

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With all due respect, the question isn't about various HTML development practices. The question is, could someone who has used perl to automate graphical web browsers (or their underlying rendering engines) recommend a library to work with the rendered image sizes in a given browser context. I'm guessing that if you have never used (for example, from doing a search on various rendering engines in CPAN) Mozilla::Mechanize, or WWW::Mechanize, or WWW::WebKit, or something else like it I'm unaware of, you'll be of limited help in making a recommendation.

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Re^3: Best way to parse/evaluate HTML page contents for apparent image size by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Dec 14, 2012 at 11:01 UTC
And my sincere opinion here is that if you want to determine the effective size of an image on the browser screen, there are many factors which influence this. (And yes, I hadn’t even considered CSS.) Sure, all these tools exist for getting to the HTML, etc., but that’s only the tip of the question being posed as I read it. There are so many potentially influencing variables here, apart from the HTML itself, that the objective is at best difficult to answer. I found the question as-stated to be vague, as in, difficult to ascertain what potential factors were intended to be in-bounds or not. Getting to the HTML and/or CSS elements in Perl, fortunately, is a technical matter that has been very-well solved by CPAN.
Re^4: Best way to parse/evaluate HTML page contents for apparent image size by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2012 at 22:30 UTC
I think you misunderstand what the various mechanize tools offer. You are manipulating a browser like Firefox that will offer you access to it's DOM and rendered image sizes... after it has been rendered, after all the CSS rules have been applied, and various directives like "px" or "%" values of the images have been applied.	[reply]
Re^3: Best way to parse/evaluate HTML page contents for apparent image size by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2012 at 11:08 UTC
dude , WWW::Mechanize::Firefox has screenshot example, but it is not pure perl, and displays sizes as firefox does	[reply]
Re^4: Best way to parse/evaluate HTML page contents for apparent image size by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2012 at 22:35 UTC
Yes, it looks like $mech->element_coordinates( $element ) will do precisely what I need. A series of arithmetic operations should quickly give me actual rendered image size, thank you. In absence of someone saying 'ah, but this module is better' or 'that module is pure perl', I'm planning on going this route.	[reply]

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