Re: lynx-dev Lynx and Java

[dickey]

> 
> Is anyone familar enough with graphical browser development to know whether 
> one could, with appropriate pain and agony, make use of the Sun Java 
> plugin now being used by Microsoft on Unix and Mac, as well as by 
> Opera and Netscape, to add Java support to Lynx?  While the GUI aspects 
> don't make any sense, Java classes dealing with e-commerce might be 
> something that would make sense for some applications. 

no - what pieces are now available to try to incorporate?
  
> Also, has anyone looked into how painful it would be to add the javascript 
> code that is now available (I've seen it appear in a Perl module in the 
> past few months) to Lynx, so that support for some of the forms applications 
> that are beginning to appear on web pages might be supported in lynx? 

no - I took a look in the summer when the topic came p, and figured it
would take about a month to get something buildable (more work than the
message library code).
  
> Just curious whether anyone on the list has actually considered looking into 
> either of these technologies, since they are two of the latest 
> technologies not supported by lynx at this time. 

> Larry W. Virden                 <URL: mailto:address@hidden> 


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