Re: [Lynx-dev] javascript engine specification

[David Woolley]

Klaus-Peter Wegge wrote:

> - HTML-text created by javascripts
This one probably requires fundamental re-design of Lynx, especially if 
done properly, rather than with load time document.write!  I don't think 
Lynx will handle new page document.write well, either.

Javascript only links are generally the result of incompetent 
programming, but, implementing document.location= is probably not difficult.

Pages that rely solely on client side validation are asking for the site 
 to be hacked!  They need to repeat the validation server side to 
protect the site against malicious clients.  On the other hand, I 
suspect Lynx has enough information retained to support client side 
validators that address relative to the form.  Form processing that 
updates hidden forms may be more difficult.

However, judging by the number of pages that now cause my old Firefox on 
an old PC to put up multiple script is running away messages, I think 
that there has been a switch to heavy use of AJAX in the last couple of 
years, and any text browser that is going to cope with this in the 
medium to long term needs to be based on one of the GUI browser, HTML5, 
engines, not on Lynx.

The original design principles (universal, simple browser, focus on 
content rather than form) have long ago been lost to the 
commercialisation of the web.

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