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by glebm
3205 days ago
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While I agree with the overall sentiment, browsers like Dillon and Lynx don't even implement HTTP caching correctly (they cache everything regardless of the headers). JavaScript is not their biggest problem, as they can plug in one of the existing engines (in fact one of the links forks does just that). |
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As someone who attempted this for Lynx back in the [~late 90s~] early 00s with the Mozilla JS engine of the time, no, they can't.
Lynx has no DOM. It parses and renders the HTML to a fixed textual pane without any intermediate format - even `document.write()` is nigh-on impossible to implement because it required keeping a copy of the HTML around, jiggering it with the output, reparsing, and going through the layout again. And that only covers the most trivial uses of `document.write()`.
To add Javascript to Lynx would require rewriting the entire internals of Lynx - not going to happen.
[Edited to correct the time period]