On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:38:07PM EDT, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote: > 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.
My first message in this thread was precisely to verify that I should use the tarball as specified in ecmascript.txt rather than use the spidermonkey .deb. To which you replied that I should follow the ecmascript.txt instructions. Since these instructions indicated that I needed to patch the source, I assumed that you meant that the .deb was not suitable. As a result I did a regular tarball install of spidermonkey. > > > 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/>. Ta.. I tend to dislike all these gimmicks but I'm beginning to take an interest in js capabilities. Even if you think it's rather unnecessary nonsense, I guess it's a lot more comfortable to verify what it does before voicing an (unpopular, no doubt..) opinion. :-) > > > 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. I've run into a few of these already and it's a lot nicer to get to an almost empty page - where nothing happens, naturally - than getting this popup error message to the effect that js is not enabled. Thanks much for your patience. Where can I take a look at the updated ecmascript.txt..? Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
