replacement for lang/phantomjs [deprecated]

[dangerwillrobinsondanger at gmail.com]

> On May 22, 2019, at 19:33, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>> The port lang/phantomjs is marked as deprecated / expired 2019-05-15. Is
>> there any alternative in the ports tree? I searched the net and found
>> https://slimerjs.org but it is not in the ports tree. (I don't have a
>> skill to port it and maintain it myself)
>> 
>> One of my clients is using phantomjs thru some webapplication so I need
>> to find some replacement.
> 
> I have a vague guess that selenium does something similar.
> 
> https://docs.seleniumhq.org/

Not really. 
phantomjs is like a headless browser client. 
Selenium is web automation API and now a W3C standard implemented by browsers to support it. Version 3+
Earlier versions worked with older browsers via plugins or extensions but no more, in part due to security issues and in part because W3C. 

PhantomJS was often like a generic browser space you could test inside of and it did have Selenium bindings. 

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