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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Features · SlimerJS</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="description" content="Features of the scriptable web browser SlimerJS"> <meta name="author" content="Laurent Jouanneau"> <link href="assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/docs.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/js/google-code-prettify/prettify.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-144-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-114-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-72-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-57-precomposed.png"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/ico/favicon.png"> </head> <body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".bs-docs-sidebar"> <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <div class="container"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="brand" href="index.html"><span>Slimer</span>JS</a> <div class="nav-collapse collapse"> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li class="active"><a href="features.html">Features</a></li> <li><a href="download.html">Download</a></li> <li><a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="http://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs">Source Code</a></li> <li><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="community.html">Community</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <header class="jumbotron subhead" id="overview"> <div class="container"> <div class="logo"> <img class="" src="assets/img/glouton-boyEntete100.png"/> </div> <h1>Features</h1> <p class="lead">What can you do with <i class="slm">SlimerJS</i>?</p> </div> </header> <div class="container"> <div class="row-fluid">  <div class="span9"> <section id="contents">  <h2>A scriptable browser</h2> <p><span class="slm">SlimerJS</span> allows you to execute JavaScript outside a classical web browser.</p> <p>In your JavaScript you can use modules, providing access to many APIs:</p> <ul> <li>Read and write files.</li> <li>Load a web page and inspect its content.</li> <li>Act on a web page like a user: click on links, fill in form fields etc. You can then inspect the results, to test them or to retrieve them.</li> <li>Listen for network events, to do network monitoring during the load of a webpage.</li> <li>Taking screenshots of a web page.</li> </ul> <p>Your script is also able to execute <a href="http://www.commonjs.org/">CommonJS</a> modules, even those written with the <a href="http://coffeescript.org/">CoffeeScript</a> language! Your main script can be written with CoffeeScript as well. SlimerJS recognizes <code>*.coffee</code> files.</p> <h2>Use latest Javascript language features</h2> <p>In your Slimerjs scripts, benefit latest <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference">Javascript features</a> implemented in Firefox, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/ECMAScript_6_support_in_Mozilla">including ECMAScript 6 features</a>: iterators, generators, destructured assignement, Map and WeakMap, "let" keyword, arrow functions, promises etc.</li> <h2>A modern browser with latest HTML5/JS/CSS enhancements</h2> <p>Since SlimerJS is executed on top of Firefox, it supports all the HTML5 standards recently implemented in Firefox, including things like audio, video, WebGL etc.</p> <p>In fact, SlimerJS is not really stuck to a specific version of Gecko: it can use any recent version of Firefox 38+.</p> <p>The web page rendering in SlimerJS is <strong>strictly identical</strong> to the rendering in Firefox.</p> <p><strong>No problem to launch your web site or your web app that use HTML5 bleeding edge features!</strong></p> <p>See <a href="download.html">the download page</a> to know the version of Firefox compatible with the latest release of SlimerJS.</p> <p>You can go on <a href="http://caniuse.com">caniuse.com</a> to see the list of HTML5 features supported by Firefox and you can use in web pages loaded by SlimerJS.</p> <h2>And more...</h2> <ul> <li>Many modules of the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/">Mozilla Add-on SDK</a> are available and you can import them into your code in the same way as <strong>CommonJS</strong> modules.</li> <li><span class="slm">SlimerJS</span> is able to load Flash content if the Flash plugin is installed (though the plugin's rendering cannot be seen when taking screenshots).</li> <li>You can use <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/modules/sdk/core/promise.html">Promises</a> when opening a web page with <code>webpage.open()</code>!</li> </ul> <p style="text-align:center;font-size:2em;margin:2em"><strong><a href="download.html">Try SlimerJS</a></strong> for your web projects!</p> <h2>About differences with PhantomJS</h2> <p>APIs of SlimerJS are similar to the APIs of <a href="http://phantomjs.org/">PhantomJS</a> but there are <a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org/current/differences-with-phantomjs.html">a few differences in their behavior</a>. Some options and a few features are still missing. We're working on it. Feel free to help us to have a full compatibility (see release notes to have the list of missing features).</p> <p>However, most of scripts for PhantomJS run perfectly well right now with SlimerJS!</p> <p>Contrary to PhantomJS, SlimerJS is not headless: you see windows and it needs a graphical environment. You can use a tool like <code>xvfb</code> on a Linux/MacOS system to have this headless feature and to execute SlimerJS on Linux boxes that do not have xorg installed.</p> </section> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer"> <div class="container"> <ul class="bs-docs-social-buttons"> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/git2.png"> Source Code</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/fork"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/git1.png"> Fork</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/slimerjs"><img src="assets/img/tweet.png"> Tweet</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slimerjs"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/tchat2.png"> Mail List</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug ? 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