On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
The JavaScript (ECMAScript) support in ELinks uses a legacy implementation of the interpreter (mozjs-1.8.5). Several bugs of the legacy interpreter breaking ELinks had to be debugged recently:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1177557 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1425004 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1446545
I have never used the JavaScript support in ELinks myself so I cannot tell how useful it actually is. On the other hand, I was debugging issues with ELinks that were caused by the JavaScript support despite the actual use cases were completely unrelated to JavaScript.
Soooo, I'm not actively using it daily, but I occasionally do (and did more when I was an active sysadmin). A lot of websites don't work at all without javascript, and it's nice to have a text mode option in a pinch.
On the other hand, if it's not really well maintained upstream, eh, whatchagonnado.