Re: Javascript-enabled text-mode browser
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:03:12PM +0000, csj@zapo.net wrote:
> I've ditched X-based browsers for most of my surfing needs.
> The only time I find them really useful is when I need
> to google for pictures *and* when I must navigate Javascript-
> enabled (or should I say disabled) sites.
>
> The only text-mode browser I could find that can handle or
> at least claim to handle Javascript is netrik. But it
> doesn't do a particularly good job in rendering HTML ATM.
>
> So does anybody know of any other text-mode browsers out
> there in the wild that can handle Javascript? Having
> seen the power of w3m's text-mode tabbed browsing, I
> would like to do all of my browsing from the console.
> (A text-mode front-end to the Mozilla-rendering engine
> would be real neat.)
You may be interested in the contents of
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01875.html
The JavaScript version of links it refers to worked to some extent for
me but it didn't handle well parts of some sites I visit. Not knowing
much about JavaScript left me undecided as to whether it was the
software or the site.
Brian.
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