Re: javascript

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:14:03PM -0700, bruce m beach wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> I completely happy with dillo just the way it is. I consider it
> insane to go on the web with javascript enabled and apart from
> gmail I don't normally have cookies enabled. (how can I
> differentiate the two users? i.e I have dillo of user 1 on the
> the screen and a dillo of user 2 also on the screen but the 2
> dillo's are identical in appearance). Anyway all of a sudden
> after using dillo for a year or so I find there is a website that
> I absolutely must get on but it requires javascript. Well okay I
> search the web to try to find something, anything that has
> javascript (I've been searching for day and night for about a
> week now) and find that there are two things
> 
>  1) Massive huge bloatware
>  2) dillo
> 
> Most things don't build, or don't have any kind of a build system
> or are for x86 (I'm on arm) so I figure I have to bite the bullet
> and build firefox. I've been rolling my own system for about 20
> years so so I know whats involved but after two config failures
> and it failing on the gigantic final link after an 8 hour build,
> I come to the conclusion that lifes not worth it. I don't want
> that piece of junk on my computer anyway. Links2 at one time had
> javascript but they abandoned it and elinks has javascript as
> long as you have seamonkey installed (tarball>190Mbytes)
> 
> Anybody got any ideas?
> 
> I did find one thing. "duktape" (http://duktape.org/)which seems
> to be an exceptionlly fine piece of code which is an embeddable
> Ecmascript E5/E5.1 engine with a focus on portability and compact
> footprint.  All the examples compiled out of the box and linking
> it to dillo (duktape.c duktape.h) took a few minutes to change
> the makefile.  The size's of the files are
> 
> dillo  558,480
> dillo  767,456 with ducttape
> 
> I don't know enough to be able to do anything with it (I work
> with hardware) but thought someone might be interested as a route
> to get javascript on dillo.

Astounding.
But you haven't added the most important thing: does your site works under dillo w/duktape?
Because, y'know, that's more than astounding to me!

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Teodoro Santoni

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