On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:18:27AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:24:18AM EDT, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote:
> > Are you saying that prior to installing the Debian package, you had
> > built SpiderMonkey yourself and put it in /usr/local?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "the Debian package" - I used the spidermonkey
> tarball (since I needed to patch the source). As to the "prior".. there
> never was a spidermonkey on this system before I did this install. 
> 
> I followed the ecmascript.txt instructions to the letter:
> 
> 1. apt-get of the libsmjs1 libsmjs-dev
> 2. download + patch + build of spidermonkey
> 
> [...]

If you apt-get install SpiderMonkey, you are not supposed to follow
the instructions to build it yourself--you only need one copy
of SpiderMonkey. I have now made this explicit in doc/ecmascript.txt.

> What kind of capabilities does the "cool dynamic document manipulation"
> provide?

For example, dynamic menus, list boxes that change their values when you
change the values of other form controls, drag-and-drop... you can find
many cool demos that don't work in ELinks at <http://script.aculo.us/>.

> What I noticed is that most of the "js links" point to the launching of
> some multimedia stuff via adhoc plugins that I really have no time for..
> but I'll keeep an eye open for problems with the "regular stuff" and
> report them here if any arise.

Some JS links work with ELinks's ECMAScript support, some do not.
Indeed, fancy multimedia players are not going to work.

-- 
Miciah Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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