On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote: > The JavaScript (ECMAScript) support in ELinks uses a legacy implementation > of the interpreter (mozjs-1.8.5). Several bugs of the legacy interpreter > breaking ELinks had to be debugged recently: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1177557 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1425004 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1446545 > > I have never used the JavaScript support in ELinks myself so I cannot tell > how useful it actually is. On the other hand, I was debugging issues with > ELinks that were caused by the JavaScript support despite the actual use > cases were completely unrelated to JavaScript. Soooo, I'm not actively using it daily, but I occasionally do (and did more when I was an active sysadmin). A lot of websites don't work at all without javascript, and it's nice to have a text mode option in a pinch. On the other hand, if it's not really well maintained upstream, eh, whatchagonnado. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
