Elinks and Speakup support

[Erik Heil]

Hi.  This is not generally related to Gentoo, but I can telly for a fact
that if you use Debian's elinks, it is not built with bittorrent or
javascript suppport. Any of you know what is the best way to deal with
this? On a side note, I can't fiure out why it wouldn't bwe built without
javascript.  BTW, how well does elinks work with Javascript?  That is, how
does it handle such things as client-side popups and the like?  B/c many
times, JavaScript is used to generate dialog boxes and for client-side
validation of data before it gets sent to the server, amonst other things.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:34:29 +0100
> From: Michael Whapples <mikster4 at msn.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Elinks and Speakup support
>
> Speakup works quite well with elinks, there is no special setup you need to
> do.
>
> As I remember you mentioned previously you use gentoo (correct me if I am
> wrong), so you should have elinks available through portage. You will need
> to tell it you want javascript support (if you want that, in the modern age
> it is fairly useful), so you need to specify the correct keyword (I am not
> sure as I don't use gentoo now, but I think it is "javascript", but if you
> install ufed then you will find the option within the interface that
> provides for setting up keywords for portage).
>
> Using with speakup, different modes may work well in different environments.
> Speakup in highlight tracking mode follows the selected link, but it speaks
> nothing when you move onto a inputbox if no default value is there, so you
> may want a different mode near forms or check things with screen review
> (like you need to to read the page).
>
> One bit which is not so good is elinks lays out tables in the full 2D
> structure, while good if you have a table of data, not so good if the page
> has a table for layout (eg. two columns of bodies of text, or to keep a left
> navigation bar separate from the main body), so reading flow may not be
> good.
>
> I think this covers the basics, which the normal instructions don't (so
> reading this email with the normal instructions should be fairly full), but
> if you still have any questions then I will try and answer them.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint38 at CommSpeed.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:08 PM
> Subject: Elinks and Speakup support
>
>
> How well does Speakup work with Elinks?
> Are there any special configuration options that I will need to set for
> displaying fof forms, etc?
> wWould anyone be able to give me a walkthrough off list on how to set up
> Elinks, if it is a good browser or not?
> Regards,
> --Keith, KeithNet network Administrator.
> Website:
> http://www.KeithNet.DynDNS.org
>
>
>
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