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   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   12 Jan 25 23:01:23   
   
   From: anthk@disroot.org   
      
   On 2024-12-08, root  wrote:   
   > Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I don't know about Emacs, but for TUI browsers with Javascript   
   >> support ELinks is one that I'm aware of. However like the   
   >> experimental JS support in Netsurf it doesn't seem to be advanced   
   >> enough to be useful (although unlike Netsurf, ELinks uses Mozilla's   
   >> SpiderMonkey JS engine, so I'm not exactly sure what makes it so   
   >> difficult to get right).   
   >>   
   >   
   > I regard ELinks as worthless. At best, I hope it is a work in   
   > progress. I haven't tried Netsurf, but I have tried implementing,   
   > via jsdom, specific fetch routines for different sites of interest.   
   > I have found that even sites that contain json data do not provide   
   > consistent (across sites) methods of fetching the data. It is   
   > worse when the data are not as organized as json data, but it is   
   > distributed in unique ways for the specific site.   
   >   
      
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