[links] Links and javascript

[Yan Seiner]

Philip Ganchev wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Karel Kulhavy <clock at twibright.com> wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> Maybe if someone had the time to reverse engineer and remove the javascript
>> bugs
>> - the original author (perm) doesn't have time because of school.
>>
>> Mikulas actually decided to remove the javascript. Most segfaults always came
>> from the javascript. I don't know if Mikulas thinks it's a good idea to pass
>> the javascript debugging to someone else.
>>     
>
> I think Links has a huge potential because of its small size and its
> independence of X.
>
> How about if we start a fund or a bounty for javascript on Links?  How
> much do you think it would cost to have it implemented?  The Links
> Development page (http://links.twibright.com/development.php) shows
> some prices in the thousands. I'll start by offering a modest US$100
> and increase that if there is need and other people pitch in.
>   

I would second that....  I've been looking at gdome and libsee as a way 
to add dom + javascript processing.

http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/index.html
http://www.adaptive-enterprises.com.au/~d/software/see/

This would probably mean we'd have to pull in libxml2 or something...  
But it would be awesome to have an xml browser that doesn't take 30 MB!

--Yan