Re: Whatever happened to Win32::IE::Mechanize? (backpan?)

[Anonymous Monk]

 [cpan://Win32::IE::Mechanize ] , [cpan://Win32 Mechanize ], [metacpan://Win32 Mechanize ] Win32::IE::Mechanize , Win32 Mechanize, Win32 Mechanize ... Hmm, bah! at least metacpan is supposed to show the backpan-ed stuff ... huh?

searching reveals author is ABELTJE so http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABELTJE/Win32-IE-Mechanize-0.009.tar.gz

FWIW Win32::IEAutomation is essentially IE::Mechanize

[Michael Roberts]

No, the API for Win32::IEAutomation is entirely different from Mechanize. And it hasn't been touched since 2007. I found a post from Gábor Szabó in 2006 asking about the differences between the two. It's a mystery. There is unbelievable cruft in CPAN going back to the last century, and yet people seem to use Win32::IE::Mechanize and it's dropped.

[Michael Roberts]

In fact, all the CPAN code I've seen so far for automating IE will fail for IE versions 8 or higher. I'll bet you haven't used IEAutomate since IE7 at most, right?