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[Braddock Gaskill]

Hi Chime,
okay, I spent some time getting elinks working with Javascript compiled
in.  elinks is basically a dead project for over five years.  I built it in
an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine to get the dependencies, particularly the
ancient Mozilla Javascript library.

Anyway, elinks does support javascript, but it is very basic and outdated
because it errored out or crashed on even the simplest sites I visited.  It
didn't even work on usenetarchives.com

So elinks w/javascript is a dead-end.  Sorry.

Below are my full installation notes if anyone wants to pick this up again:

elinks with javascript support attempt
    cd elinks/
    vagrant init
    edit Vagrantfile
      config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"
    vagrant up
    vagrant ssh
    Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add all deb-src commented lines
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install screen vim make build-essential
    sudo apt build-dep elinks
    sudo apt install libmozjs185-dev
    sudo apt install libgcrypt20-dev
    sudo apt upgrade

    # git clone http://elinks.cz/elinks.git
    # git clone hangs.  Do wget download instead, following instructions
from:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/34687/is-there-a-text-mode-browser-which-supports-javascript

    wget http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2
    tar xvjf elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2
    cd elinks-0.13-20210711/
    ./configure
    make -j2
    src/elinks

    In menu turn on ECMAScript and save.
    Setup -> Option manager -> ECMAScript

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On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 8:14 PM Chime Hart <chime at hubert-humphrey.com>
wrote:

> Well Braddock, in a graphical side of Linux, there is ORCA, but I've never
> been
> comfortable with that, although we think it may have alot to do with the
> layout. As far as your ideas, they sound interesting, as LYNX will never
> support javascript.
> Thanks for considering solutions.
> Chime
>
>
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