Re: lynx-dev Adding script support

[Leslie Fairall]

Hi all:

Lloyd, you do speak for many of blind users who use lynx. I would love
nothing more than to be able to use lynx as my browser for my classes at
school. However, the site heavily relies on Javascript, and I am forced to
use Internet Explorer instead. I wish I could be of some help to bring
this about, but I am not a programmer. However, seems like I'm learning
HTML by looking at sorce code. I can at least interpret it, if nothing
else. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.


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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:

> I'm sorry I don't have enough time and experience to move Javascript
> support forward for Lynx.  But I think I am speaking for many blind
> users of Lynx in the following:
>
> David Wooley asserted that a Javascript version of Lynx which opened
> up neww windows on the screen would be confusing for blind users.
> Most of the DOS screen readers can detect a box formed by extended
> ASCII box-drawing characters and read the contents of that box when
> it appears.  This requires some setting up, and wouldn't be very
> satisfactory on a Lynx running through a modem, but it could be made
> to work.  For the slow connections, output to a fixed region (perhaps
> the last 3 lines of the display area) could also be used if
> necessary.
>
> People are having to refresh their screen reader's view of a page
> when JS is used to provide expanding and collapsing menus on MSIE.
> Lynx's refresh behavior is a good thing for blind users, because it
> gives us, rather than the page author, a chance to determine the
> timing of web page transitions.
>
> Javascript is often being used for browser sniffing, and different
> versions of code are executed depending on the version of browser
> running the code.  We would have to explain what Lynx does with some
> of the constructs, if we ever could get it to do anything with them.
>
> If anyone on the list finds any way for Lynx to tackle any of the
> Javascript running rampant on the web, there are a number of testers
> eager to try it out and report back.  And with some more prodding, I
> could try my hand at compiling under Cygnus; that environment does
> work tolerably with DOS screen readers.
>
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:24:17 -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>
> >I looked through DOM-level1-html definition,
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-html.html
> >
> >and see nothing which cannot be *easily* supported by lynx.  Granted,
> >there is no onclick() etc there, but do we actually *need* them (at
> >least in the first draft)?
> >
> >I suppose that there is a library which implements DOM-level1-html.
> >Then one needs to plug-in/rewrite document.write() code to work in the
> >same spirit as HTftp.c or HThttp.c.
> >
> >To add the support for onclick() etc. all one needs to do is keep the
> >DOM object pointer stored in the HTText object, and have HTanchor keep
> >references to the corresponding DOM elements...
> >
> >Ilya
> >
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