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Re: lynx-dev Lynx and Java
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx and Java |
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Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:05:03 -0500 (EST) |
>
> Is anyone familar enough with graphical browser development to know whether
> one could, with appropriate pain and agony, make use of the Sun Java
> plugin now being used by Microsoft on Unix and Mac, as well as by
> Opera and Netscape, to add Java support to Lynx? While the GUI aspects
> don't make any sense, Java classes dealing with e-commerce might be
> something that would make sense for some applications.
no - what pieces are now available to try to incorporate?
> Also, has anyone looked into how painful it would be to add the javascript
> code that is now available (I've seen it appear in a Perl module in the
> past few months) to Lynx, so that support for some of the forms applications
> that are beginning to appear on web pages might be supported in lynx?
no - I took a look in the summer when the topic came p, and figured it
would take about a month to get something buildable (more work than the
message library code).
> Just curious whether anyone on the list has actually considered looking into
> either of these technologies, since they are two of the latest
> technologies not supported by lynx at this time.
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
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