Re: lynx-dev JavaScript again (was no subject)

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> However, this is not pleasant.  The number of workarounds I've had to
> implement to work around Lynx's internal structures (the way forms are
> implemented internally baffles me, for example) and the broken Javascript
> out there (javascript: urls are supposed to return the resultant location -
> this is handled fine.  Unfortunately 90% of the Javascript out there doesn't
> work like this, but works by setting document.location.  This is somewhat
> handled, but only on a javascript: link.)
> 
> There are a whole host of problems.  A partial list:
> 
> Lynx has no internal document structure

That alone seems to make javascript (as usually used) pretty much
pointless for lynx as it is.

   Klaus