<div dir="ltr">Hi Chime,<div>okay, I spent some time getting elinks working with Javascript compiled in. elinks is basically a dead project for over five years. I built it in an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine to get the dependencies, particularly the ancient Mozilla Javascript library.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, elinks does support javascript, but it is very basic and outdated because it errored out or crashed on even the simplest sites I visited. It didn't even work on <a href="http://usenetarchives.com">usenetarchives.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>So elinks w/javascript is a dead-end. Sorry.</div><div><br></div><div>Below are my full installation notes if anyone wants to pick this up again:</div><div><br></div><div>elinks with javascript support attempt<br> cd elinks/<br> vagrant init<br> edit Vagrantfile<br> config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"<br> vagrant up<br> vagrant ssh<br> Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add all deb-src commented lines<br> sudo apt update<br> sudo apt install screen vim make build-essential<br> sudo apt build-dep elinks<br> sudo apt install libmozjs185-dev<br> sudo apt install libgcrypt20-dev<br> sudo apt upgrade<br><br> # git clone <a href="http://elinks.cz/elinks.git">http://elinks.cz/elinks.git</a><br> # git clone hangs. Do wget download instead, following instructions from:<br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/34687/is-there-a-text-mode-browser-which-supports-javascript">https://askubuntu.com/questions/34687/is-there-a-text-mode-browser-which-supports-javascript</a><br><br> wget <a href="http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2">http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2</a><br> tar xvjf elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2<br> cd elinks-0.13-20210711/<br> ./configure<br> make -j2<br> src/elinks<br><br> In menu turn on ECMAScript and save.<br> Setup -> Option manager -> ECMAScript<br><br> ---<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 8:14 PM Chime Hart <<a href="mailto:chime@hubert-humphrey.com">chime@hubert-humphrey.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well Braddock, in a graphical side of Linux, there is ORCA, but I've never been <br>
comfortable with that, although we think it may have alot to do with the <br>
layout. As far as your ideas, they sound interesting, as LYNX will never <br>
support javascript.<br>
Thanks for considering solutions.<br>
Chime<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>