Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:49AM
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I just mean users without JS usually aren't ones who are downloading files. Lynx is possibly an exception, though, since it's sometimes used by server admins like myself to grab packages.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5
by fabriceleal on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:01AM
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Ah ok. But is there some reason for Lynx not to support JS? Is this by design? I also found out about links [1] and elinks [2] but seems that their JS support is marginal or requires compiling with certain flags [3]. Haven't anyone tried to incorporate V8 yet?
[1]: http://links.twibright.com/
[2]: http://elinks.or.cz/index.html
[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9353519/lynx-with-javascr...
Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:04AM
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Implementing JS would be a huge undertaking (they'd have to implement lots of APIs and the DOM, for starters). Such text-mode browsers are usually light on resources, too, and this would change that. Also, JS is usually used with the assumption graphics support is there.