Hi,
On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 05:46:12PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
However the programs, as I understand it, both would benefit from additional
coding work around JavaScript. Google currently rejects both..even though
both worked previously.
To be clear, are you trying to say:
Links and Elinks browsers once worked for browsing Google web sites
but now do not, and it is believed that the reason for this is that
Google demands that a browser implement more support for JavaScript
than either of these browsers currently do. There is desire stated
within the Links and Elinks projects to better support JavaScript
and I would like for that to happen so that I can use them to use
Google web sites again.
?
How much would it cost to pay a developer to upgrade these tools?
Generally speaking do developers work by the hour, or on a blanket basis per
project?
If I have understood your desire correctly, it's going to be a difficult
question to answer.
I think you would be better off asking the Links and Elinks projects how
many hours of work they think it would be to get their projects into a
shape where Google might accept them. People not familiar with those
projects are not going to be able to answer that, and without that sort
of scoping we really could be talking about any amount from almost
nothing to near-impossibility.
Another matter to consider is that while improved JavaScript support may
be desired by these projects, they may not want the work to go as far as
what is required by Google, or they may want the work to go further. It
is often a complex negotiation process to agree scope for a new feature
and that's not something that anyone outside those projects can answer
for you.
When it comes to paying someone to get code into Links and Elinks you
would be paying both for their competence as a developer and also their
ability to communicate with these projects which is yet another reason
why you would be better off discussing this within those communities and
finding people from within them to do the work.
Then, there is the fickle nature of Google. Let's say you pay a
developer $100k and one year to make Links work with Google search. The
week after you sign off on the final product, Google decide to change
their requirements and perhaps Links stops working again. Links and
Elinks as projects can't make Google do anything.
Maybe there is a search provider that is less hostile to non- low
low-JavaScript support browsers than Google, I do not know, I do not use
Google search either.
Thanks,
Andy
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