Re: LYNX-DEV Looking for Java/Javascript Lynx

[Michael Ritzert]

Roger Hill writes:
 > On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, David Rovinsky wrote:
 > 
 > > > The consensus (as far as I'm concerned) is that Java is much too
 > > > GUI-oriented to implement directly into Lynx.  Perhaps it would be nice 
 > > > if
 > > > Lynx would spawn an applet viewer, much like images and sound files are
 > > > already handled.  OTOH, I've not seen an applet I can't live without.
 > 
 > Fair enough, but to me, the best part about Java is the JDBC drivers..so
 > now I can access my databases from Java. If Lynx could support Java to the
 > extent required for JDBC, then I need not use PHP, perl CGI's etc to
 > provide text based web access for my users to the enterprise DB's.
 > 
 > I have written some simple standalone _applications_ in Java to
 > collect/update info from our Ingres DB..if I could Lynx them, it would
 > fit in much better with other apps that we have.
 > 
 > Hope this makes sense.

In my opinion, yes.

A while ago there was a student in this group who wanted to do a
javascript clone for lynx. Does anybody know if there were any results
of this project?

Java: maybe it is possible to borrow code from mMosaic (a variant of
NCSA mosaic which, among other features like tables, supports java
(using kaffe). The extensions do not run under the NCSA copyright but
under GPL.

mMosaic can be found at http://sig.enst.fr/~dauphin/mMosaic/

Michael
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