That is exactly the behavior I get. It's possable they've sinse included spidermonkey, have to check that out. Is there another url you know of which has javascript that I can test with elinks? Most help suggestions indeed thanks Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:16 PM Subject: Re: configuring elinks how do I? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sean McMahon's comments on configuring elinks how do I? were as follows: > # Finally, what option do I enable for javascript support? I went to a page that > # identified itself to elinks as having javascript, but the script couldn't > # execute. I did not get the unsupported url scheme you get from lynx the cat. > # The particular url I was focused on was http://waitwait.npr.orgg. From there go > # to the link that says listen to the show or listen. Could just be bad > # scripting, but I don't know where else I should test elinks. > > Javascript has to be compiled into elinks with the --with-spidermonkey > configuration option. Unfortunately, the original source tarball *always* fails > to detect spidermonkey if it is installed. You will need to apt-get install > spidermonkey and spidermonkey-dev in order to get this to compile. > Then you will need to apt-build install elinks. This will build the Debian > source package and install it. Once this is done, Javascript support will be > compiled in. Note that Javascript is not compiled into the Debian binary, but > the source enables it by default. > > As for the URL you gave? elinks gave me a link to www.npr.org/programs/waitwait > or something similar, which I clicked on and the page with the listen link came > up. Links2 took me to this page after confirming that I really wanted to let > the javascript redirect me to the URL. However the "Listen to the show" link > does nothing at all in either elinks or links2. > > HTH. > Lorenzo > - -- > "We decided that we should evaluate the Microsoft offerings first. Once we > realised what a powerful set of tools they were, it became self-evident this was > the right way to go down." > > Microsoft: the right way to go down > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCVFG/G9IpekrhBfIRAlNMAJ9dnBZzyg8enuRcAcQtQoCulrKngQCfZgBk > BCHVVKuD06OKSL1fuCfopP0= > =8loX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
