links 2.1 and elinks was Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.
	  
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 08:27:39PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:14:44PM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi.
> > ...
> > 
> > BTW, the fact Gene and I were having a debate on whether elinks 0.10 or
> > links 2.1 has the best javascript support on the reflector yesterday
> > means the need for Mozilla is declining.  
> 
> Wow, you mean that's the best Java support we can expect.  Quite
> frankly, the javascript support I've seen in links 2.1 is down right
> lousy! Most things I've tried including phpPGadmin, a web based
> database manager, are completely unusable in links.  I haven't gotten
> around to trying elinks yet because I have to go and install the Java
> developer kit or somesuch in order to install elinks if I recall.  I
> really had my hopes up about using Gnopernicus and mozilla.  I still
> end up going over to windows quite often to use those websites that
> have java all over the place.
> 
> -- 

What version of linkx 2.1 are you using?  It's up to pre 17 now.

Elinks is a C program and doesn't use any java.  It does use
spidermonkey which is Mozilla's javascript inturpreter, but that's a C
program.  I personally don't know of any console browser that needs
Java.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny