Re: LYNX-DEV handling Javascript (was mensa etc)u

[Philip Webb]

980408 Wayne Buttles wrote (off-list for some reason): 
> You didn't read what I said did you?

i most certainly did read it (as a useful suggestion by you)
& thought i was following it up with a useful comment of my own.
 
WB> there could be some javascript hacks using the concept of imagemap code
> as a base, but javascript is usually  <!-- commented out --> .
> does lynx do anything with text that is in comments
> or does it just throw it away until the other end shows up? 

i can't answer your question, but always assumed Lynx threw it all away.
my idea was/is that Lynx -- on encountering Javascript comment-marks --
would no longer simply throw the content away,
but at least grab any URL's contained therein,
while alerting the user to the fact that there's Javascript in the vicinity.
it doesn't look like a big programming item, if anyone has the time.

PW> this is the 2nd time recently that this Javascript problem has hit us;
> i suggested Lynx should insert a warning, but purists gagged as usual.
> the Ricoh page shows there is a serious problem about URLs,
> which will probably become more common.
> wouldn't it be simple to have Lynx handle Javascript
> so that the user is warned & the URLs are given,
> at least in the References at the end or the Listed URLs key?
> this would follow the principle i suggested the other day,
> that Lynx is a real fast auto, but needs better shocks for bad roads.

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