Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:11:43PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> No, that's the same I do and I know.
> So there's no hope to access that account with a textual browser?

I missed this discussion.  As far as Debian archive package discription
goes, I do not see one supporting javascript with a textual browser.

Google tells me:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/console-browser-javascript.html
http://www.mandrivaclub.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/UtilsUbrowse
http://links.twibright.com/development.php

So it looks like links has/had development code supporting it.  Our
corresponding package is links2.  Unfortunately its changelog states:

Mon Apr 16 01:49:07 MET DST 2007 mikulas:

        Javascript was removed. The reason is that it is very buggy, Martin
        Pergel doesn't have time to develop it and code is so messy that no one
        else can understand it.

        If you use links for special purposes (embedded devices, etc.), you can
        bring javascript back by copying javascript files from previous release,
        removing "dnl javascript" lines from configure.in, adding *.c and *.h
        files to Makefile.am and re-running automake and autoconf.

        Javascript hooks from main code were not removed --- they just won't be
        maintained.

Osamu