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.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader