Re: lynx-dev comment about links-2.0pre6

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:23:55PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > I looked at it this morning and (of course) compiled with gcc's warnings 
> > turned
> > on - got 10530 warnings.  Looks like it's still in alpha.
> 
>  This can't (and doesn't) correlate with the end user's experience. Links2 is
> a very good browser with javascript support.

maybe (I'll have to explore what is meant by javascript "support" in the
current copy - reading the parser, it looks more like wishful thinking than
actuality).  I did see it (incorrectly) flag an instance of javascript in
a comment, but didn't see it doing anything more than that.
 
>  But it seems it didn't get polished while its version jumped by 1 - it
> doesn't support http auth and AFAIR doesn't work with cookies in all cases.

I looked at a (recent) copy of elinks a few weeks ago, and it dumped core.
This one happened to catch my attention because it was mentioned in one
of the Debian mailing lists.

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