Re: [Lynx-dev] Javascript in Lynx?

[David Woolley]

On 20/12/16 14:10, Dan D. wrote:
> Perhaps I'm recalling incorrectly but doesn't elinks have java support?

Java is not javascript.

Also javascript is loose terminology, it really only applies to earlier 
Netscape browsers, but generalises to a combination of Ecmascript and 
the HTML document object model (DOM), plus a browser object model.

Lynx's internal data structures are nothing like even the original HTML 
document object model, and that has been greatly changed/extended in the 
creation of HTML5.

Implementing the DOM would require radical restructuring of Lynx.  The 
best that one can really hope for is some of the more commonly used 
browser object model operations (although many of those relate to 
windowing) and the recognition of certain common idioms without any 
corresponding deep structure.