Re: lynx-dev Javascript

[Philip Webb]

990228 Lalo Martins wrote: 
> Mozilla is going to release the Javascript engine (a library)
> double-licensed on NPL and GPL.  It is already available, but NPL-only;
> as soon as GPL is effective, it becomes an useful addition to lynx.
> Is anyone already thinking of this?
> If Mozilla.org's GPLed libjavascript is sane enought,
> I might even put aside some time to help lynx use it.

i've read the deluge of responses during my daytime sleep period (grin),
so i'm sure you now feel encouraged without my input FWIW.
 
> Some guys with enough guts to call themselves webmasters are acquiring
> the horrendous habit of writing forms without submit buttons
> they add some other button (or worse, an anchor)
> that triggers a script that does something before submitting
> (usually verifying the data in the form,
> something that everyone knows should be done by the server).
> Among a lot of JS usability issues, this last one is the most annoying,
> and unfortunately seems to be a growing trend.

one of my small self-chosen roles is First-aid Help Desk
& we regularly get innocent users who have been bitten by this one:
at present there's no help for them, so feel even more encouraged.
2-8-3dev.nn will probably be the place to start adding JS,
maybe  c 2 mths  from now, but TD knows best about timing, of course.

BL & TD have described lynx-dev's processes & practices very well:
we tend to be vigorous-minded in debate,
but manage to remain generally polite & try to act by consensus;
some contributors are very good programmers, some users, some in between;
we are a pretty well-established club, but i don't know how typical,
since i don't belong to any others of the kind (smile).

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