Guess we will have to wait for Mozilla and carpurnicus? Nigel, To read about injustice, please visit. http://www.stormbringer.tv/info/story1.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin McCormick" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: Re: an article worthy of our attention. > What is truly frustrating is how difficult it is to get a > text-based browser that will actually run on a javascript-infected > site. lynx or l y n x is always the first browser I try because that > application is built like a tank and renders html beautifully when it > can. Trouble is that so many sites run on javascript so lynx > flounders uselessly until we catch on to the fact that we didn't miss > anything. The site just doesn't work with lynx. > > Then there is links or l i n k s which has some javascript > capabilities. My experience is that it often gets a little farther in > to a site than lynx will but it eventually crashes and burns all be it > differently. > > What would be a killer application would be if Mozilla could > run in VT100 mode as well as under X. I looked in to the structure of > the l y n x browser and I agree with the people, many of which are > much smarter than I am, that javascript just can't be shoved in to > lynx without a total rewrite. > > A modern browser for text mode would remedy one of the few > weaknesses in Unix for computer users who are blind. > > Martin McCormick > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list