Chris Travers wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Roderick A. Anderson 
> <raand...@cyber-office.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Of course this does raise the head of the JavaScript monster.  I
>> still hear of people disabling JS.
>> 
>> Is JavaScript an issue to users and supporters of LSMB?
> 
> We want LSMB to work ok without Javascript.  That it works  better 
> with Javascript is fine and good.
> 
> However, I don't think you can fix the problems with the current 
> generations of text-only web browsers with Javascript.  A better 
> approach is to recognize this and for us to continue working towards
> a stable and maintainable API so that ncurses interfaces etc. become 
> possible.  I'd rather have us drop support for the text-only web 
> browsers (a process which has gradually occurred to a significant 
> extent between 1.0 and 1.2).

YES!!!  Sorry if I gave the impression that I wanted/needed TEXT only
browsers.  They were cute when the GUI browsers were named Mosaic and
Mozilla.  I think LSMB can be 10-key friendly in Firefox.

> I have still used elinks with 1.2 where I needed to, but it is a
> painful experience because this is not the sort of thing that Elinks
> developers had in mind when they developed it.

I feel your pain.  I just had to access a site using elinks from a 
server I was connected to via a ssh session.


Rod
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