Debian Wheezy and Command-shell Browser Output

[Martin McCormick <martin@x.it.okstate.edu>]

	I use Debian Wheezy with the speakup kernel modules that
make it possible for computer users who are blind to access the
system. The particular hardware I am using should run gnome with
orka but tell that to the box and see how far that gets you.

	Right now, bash command-line operation is all I have. I
need to be able to access a couple of NetGear routers whose
interfaces are heavily infested with javascript and optimized
for Internet Explorer.

	While searching for text-mode browsers and javascript, I
found a virtual package called www-browser and thought it might
be able to call iceweasel in such a way as to get it to run and
produce text output.

	What www-browser does is to call lynx, something I have
been able to do for 12 years or so.

	I looked at a package called elinks which was under
development some years back. It can do some javascript if you
compile it after installing the Mozzilla spidermonkey libraries.
The latest version I found was elinks 0.12.x. With the
spidermonkey libs, it compiles and at some point, it blows up
with an error so that's not going anywhere.

	Can www-browser run iceweasel and deliver output to a
command-line console? That would be the best way to access many
applications since iceweasel (firefox) is current and less
likely to slip through the cracks as some of the older nitch
applications have done.

Thanks for any good ideas.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group