[no subject]

[owner-lynx-dev]

<address@hidden>
           for <address@hidden>; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:20:46 +1000
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:27:22 +0000
From: Doug Kearns <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: lynx-dev alarm: Lynx will be soon an old unusable browser
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Mail-Followup-To: address@hidden
References: <address@hidden>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i
Sender: address@hidden
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: address@hidden
X-Mailing-List: lynx-dev

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote:
 > I'm blind and a Lynx-Fan; but I'm still waiting for a
 > Javascript-compatible version.
 > I totally ignore which developments are currently made in it but I 
think
 > if we can't have SOON a browser that can handle Javascript-like sites
 > and Javascript-like devices (external routers or Modem-pppoe-dhcp 
units,
 > see Eicon of Dlink...) then I think Lynx will become obsolete.
 > The only project that currently started studying this problem, is
 > netrik.sf.net, but they begin from zero. Why not implementing Lynx 
then,
 > since this is the BEST browser for textmode surfing?

Links is talking about only being a couple of months from reasonable
Javascript support. See the address@hidden archive for
more details, sketchy as they are.

Regards,
Doug






; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to address@hidden