[links] Links and javascript

[Edward Rosten]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Yan Seiner wrote:

> Edward Rosten wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:31:06PM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does links support javascript in forms now?
>>>>
>>> Javascript in Lins is soon going to be discontinued because
>>>
>>
>> I will be sad to see it go, it's one of the things that makes links usable
>> as a lightweight browser.
>>
>>
>>> is buggy beyond repair :(
>>>
>>
>> I have started looking at Javascript interpreter libraries. Unfortunately,
>> I don't understand Links well enough to try integrating them.
>>
> Look at libsee.  The problem is that links would have to generate a DOM
> for javascript to work.

That's for javascript to work fully. However even without a DOM, links 
still has some ability to work on those really stupid websites which 
replace all normak links with dodgy javascript code.

I really don't want to loose the ability to do that.

> You may be able to look at hv3 to get an idea of how that's done.  It's
> written in Tk/Tcl and C. http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html

There's also Dillo. It's got CSS support, so I think it must hace a DOM 
for that to work. I tjink it's written in a mixture of C and C++.

> I desparately need a lightweight javascript enabled browser.  I thought
> we had a solution with konq/e, but it's just too slow and big.

> I've not looked through links enough to see just how much work is
> involved in creating a dom....

-Ed