Re: [Lynx-dev] Javascript in Lynx?

[Larry Darryl Lee jr]

Thanks for the reference, I'll take a look and see which features were 
implemented.

- Larry

On 12/18/2016 01:59 PM, X dej wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Old version of links browser (links, not lynx) had javascript somewhat working.
>
> links dropped javascript support after version links-2.1pre18.
>
> The links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 I still have in my home has SHA1sum
> 118a1b59e084b027318adc895aa69fa778c45f86, and this checksum was posted
> back in 2005 on
> https://frugalware.org/pipermail/frugalware-darcs/2005-September/004460.html
>
> Good luck.
>
> X
>
> 2016-12-15 1:35 UTC+01:00, Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>:
> > If anybody ever tries this, the edbrowse project already did some work
> > they'll not need to duplicate.  What edbrowse parsed out of the
> > javascript corpus and enabled support for was all functions in the
> > javascript corpus it makes sense for users of character based terminals
> > to have available and did not support the graphical terminal specific
> > functions.  Have there been updates to javascript since edbrowse did
> > this?  I don't know but this may provide a good launch point.
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, Philip Webb wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:48:22
> > > From: Philip Webb <address@hidden>
> > > To: Larry Darryl Lee jr <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: lynx-dev listserv <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Javascript in Lynx?
> > >
> > > 161214 Larry Darryl Lee jr wrote:
> > > > I'm a longtime user of Lynx and was curious as to whether or not the
> > > > developers of Lynx ever considered adding a JavaScript engine to it. I'd
> > > > be curious to learn whether or not this was ever considered and what, if
> > > > anything, came of those efforts.
> > > No, there have never been plans to include JS in Lynx.
> > > You should send inquiries re Lynx to  address@hidden .
> > --
> >
> >
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On 12/18/2016 01:59 PM, X dej wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Old version of links browser (links, not lynx) had javascript somewhat working.
>
> links dropped javascript support after version links-2.1pre18.
>
> The links-2.1pre18.tar.bz2 I still have in my home has SHA1sum
> 118a1b59e084b027318adc895aa69fa778c45f86, and this checksum was posted
> back in 2005 on
> https://frugalware.org/pipermail/frugalware-darcs/2005-September/004460.html
>
> Good luck.
>
> X
>
> 2016-12-15 1:35 UTC+01:00, Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>:
> > If anybody ever tries this, the edbrowse project already did some work
> > they'll not need to duplicate.  What edbrowse parsed out of the
> > javascript corpus and enabled support for was all functions in the
> > javascript corpus it makes sense for users of character based terminals
> > to have available and did not support the graphical terminal specific
> > functions.  Have there been updates to javascript since edbrowse did
> > this?  I don't know but this may provide a good launch point.
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, Philip Webb wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:48:22
> > > From: Philip Webb <address@hidden>
> > > To: Larry Darryl Lee jr <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: lynx-dev listserv <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Javascript in Lynx?
> > >
> > > 161214 Larry Darryl Lee jr wrote:
> > > > I'm a longtime user of Lynx and was curious as to whether or not the
> > > > developers of Lynx ever considered adding a JavaScript engine to it. I'd
> > > > be curious to learn whether or not this was ever considered and what, if
> > > > anything, came of those efforts.
> > > No, there have never been plans to include JS in Lynx.
> > > You should send inquiries re Lynx to  address@hidden .
> > --
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Lynx-dev mailing list
> > address@hidden
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev