[WEB4LIB] Re: Lynx question

[josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us]

> 
> > Since I am not a Lynx user, I claim total ignorance:
> >
> > How well does Lynx handle frames and Java script?
> 
> It doesn't.  They say text only and they meant it.  :)

The version I'm currently using will display frames as follows:

FRAME: menu
FRAME: right

Since it's a text browser I could simply cut and pastes into this
message. Select eithe frame as you would a link. I'm using the version
that came with RedHat about 3 months ago which is 2.8.1 release 2. I
need to get an upgrade to handle https.  I don't know about Java or JavaScript. If you tell me a site I'll check it out.


> 
> I've heard that the newest version (2.8?) of Lynks will attempt to render
> frames as a table but I haven't seen it myself.  Perhaps someone else can
> comment on how well that works.
> 
> I don't think there are any plans to support JavaScript.  Most JavaScript is
> used to do things that wouldn't work in text mode anyway, like opening new
> windows, change image properties etc.  For the little bit that would work,
> it doesn't seem like it's worth the effort.


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