Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about

[Alan Cox]

> I am fighting a losing battle with the docs people at SCO.  They're
> designing the documentation for the next major release with bazillions
> of frames, JavaScript everywhere, tables, frames, more frames, and did I
> mention frames?

What was that phrase "The customer is always right" ?

> Anyway, they're using lots of JavaScript for lots of non-graphical
> purposes.  The new doc set would therefore be marginally less unreadable
> [now there's a worthwhile goal...] if Lynx supported JavaScript.

JavaScript is likely to be a nightmare. Netscape doesn't even follow its own
spec accurately, and lots of javascript has to be written in strange ways
to avoid crashing the browsers.

It would definitely be interesting to see, and you may be able to get other
browser developers involved (eg Yggdrasil for Arena)

Alan

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