Re: dealing with javascript

[Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Peter Durieux wrote:

 > Hi, I know there is a project on sourforge.
 > Netrik is a text browser that may support js, c http://netrik.sourceforge.net.
last time I checked it didn't even support forsm yet.
And I tested it on a heavily js-infected site, still no text was showing.
Wheilst their idea's seem okay, I've not yet seen any practical outcome of
it.
 > I haven't tested the last versions.
 > 
 > grtz 
 > 
 > -Peter
 > 
 > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:20:47PM +1000, RAYNER Peter wrote:
 > > I guess we're all running into problems with javascript more and more
 > > often.  I'm wondering if it's time to put some collective effort into
 > > a solution and, if so, what it might be.  
 > > The last time this topic turned up on the emacs-w3 list, Bill Perry's
 > > suggestion was for some kind of external parser, rather than extending
 > > the capabilities of emacs-w3 itself.  
 > > The other alternatives I see are to wait and hope the netscape
 > > accessibility efforts make the problem go away or to extend the
 > > capabilities of some other access tool.  
 > > Does anyone have any suggestions for which alternative might be
 > > preferable?  If we do decide on an external filter what kinds of
 > > capabilities must it have?  The few times I've looked inside
 > > inaccessible pages the JS seems to be doing uninteresting things like
 > > drop-down lists which could easily be handled other ways.  But I don't
 > > know enough about the capabilities of javascript to know what other
 > > kinds of events we might have to deal with.  I'm happy to try and hack
 > > something together to do this provided there's a reasonable chance of
 > > success; it's about time I brushed up my perl anyway.    There  also
 > > look to be some open-source implementations of interpretters out there
 > > we could possibly modify for the task.  
 > > So do people have a view of whether and how to go forward with this?
 > > Any currently active projects?  Other comments
 > > cheers
 > > Peter Rayner
 > > 
 > > 
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