an article worthy of our attention.

[Stoppard]

Guess we will have to wait for Mozilla and carpurnicus?

Nigel,

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
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
> 
> 
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