Re: lynx-dev javascript? was Re: [...] Lynx will be soon an old ...

[David Woolley]

> could you give sketch of the task?  i've seen javascripts, and there was a
> class hierarchie listed.  just a ballpark figure:  how many lines of ruby
> or python to describe the classes and their constructors/destructors?

You would have to more or less completely rewrite gridtext in Lynx,
i.e. the change strikes at the core of Lynx.  Most of the costructing is
done by the browser (not many people use constructors for anything except
basic data types and images (the latter for preloading mouseover images).

There is an class for every HTML element, plus a few associated with
browser automation.

You would have to write them in C because they have to integrate with
the existing C code which maintains Lynx's proprietory document object
model.

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