Please forgive a bit of sentimental crap. The following is taken from a message to my friend Luca in Italy, but is directly related to Lynx: > Subject: P.S. [Lynx+JavaScript?] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Hi Luca! I thought of something else, maybe you can help: > > Lynx doesn't support JavaScript, and it's becoming more of an > issue now. I've been reading about completely inaccessible sites > due to <A HREF="JavaScript:function()"> links without a <NOSCRIPT> > option more and more often. I don't see very many of them personally, > but it's getting to be a problem for some. > > The thing is that it's very difficult to make Lynx render tables, > framesets [in one window], and support JavaScript, all for the > same reason: it parses HTML in *one pass*, unlike graphical browsers, > which do recursive passes to render nested tables and so on. > That's why it's so fast too. > > Some regulars on the lynx-dev mailing list are saying it would > be simpler to write a variant Mozilla to run in text-only mode > [ie: something you could use from a terminal] than it would be > to restructure Lynx's code so completely. Some are even wondering > if Lynx will have any practial use in the future. They could > be right, but I really don't *like* that idea: Lynx was around > in some form or other before the Internet as we know it [in fact, > the earliest kinds of hypertext were written for Lynx], and it's > kept pace beautifully until now. There are few traditions here > and memories are short, so I think the first browser should exist > and thrive in the *present* if at all possible. > > I've also read a little about server-side JavaScript, and thought > of a possible way to make it work on the client-side. Since you > practically breathe web-authoring, I just wondered if any of this > makes sense to you: > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Server-Side JavaScript for UNIX Lynx? > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > [... previous message ...] > > > > > Thanks again. If I'm just babbling here, it's ok; wouldn't be > the first time. ;-) > > > "We are sorry to announce that the world is coming > to and end. > Please log off now." > -- unknown > > > Patrick > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Patrick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
