Re: lynx-dev Java Support

[Leonid Pauzner]

> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>>You know, I can't recall a serious discussion of what features of Javascript
>>would really need to be supported.

Many sites currently use JavaScript in form submition code,
so you just could not press "submit" with Lynx since
JavaScript function should be invoked to do some check for input entries.
This is a real Lynx fault (and page authors doesn't care).

Other Javascript usage in HTML mostly decorative,
it is a minore avdantage while we have no real GUI output.

>>
>>For instance, the popular http://come.to/ etc. sites I believe depend on
>>JavaScript to do redirections.  That's one use that I could see useful
>>in Lynx - support for redirecting lynx to a new page.

> Interesting.. I went to SureTrade to get some more specific examples, and
> here's a bit of interesting code...
> function IsNS3Browser() {

>         browserName = navigator.appName;
>         browserVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);

>         if (browserName == "Netscape" && browserVer >= 3)
>                 return 1 ;
>         else
>                 return 0 ;
> }

> So they specifically check for Netscape..