Hi

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 16:14 +0000, Martin McCormick wrote:

>       I use Debian Wheezy with the speakup kernel modules that
> make it possible for computer users who are blind to access the
> system. The particular hardware I am using should run gnome with
> orka but tell that to the box and see how far that gets you.
> 
>       Right now, bash command-line operation is all I have. I
> need to be able to access a couple of NetGear routers whose
> interfaces are heavily infested with javascript and optimized
> for Internet Explorer.

Ouch. Does not sound nice.

Surely there must be some more sensible interface?  The netgear routers
I have worked with in the past did have a command-line interface, but I
cannot recall whether it was enabled by default.  It's been a while.


>       While searching for text-mode browsers and javascript, I
> found a virtual package called www-browser and thought it might
> be able to call iceweasel in such a way as to get it to run and
> produce text output.
> 
>       What www-browser does is to call lynx, something I have
> been able to do for 12 years or so.

Actually, the www-browser is a debian-specific command - it simply uses
the "alternatives" system:

# update-alternatives --display www-browser

will show you the current setting. By default this will be the highest
priority (which hopefully translates to "best") browser you have
installed.

But you can force it to call your browser of choice using:
# update-alternatives --config www-browser

"www-browser" is just a way to invoke a browser, just like "vi" will run
one of the multiple vi-implementations.

> 
>       I looked at a package called elinks which was under
> development some years back. It can do some javascript if you
> compile it after installing the Mozzilla spidermonkey libraries.
> The latest version I found was elinks 0.12.x. With the
> spidermonkey libs, it compiles and at some point, it blows up
> with an error so that's not going anywhere.
> 
>       Can www-browser run iceweasel and deliver output to a
> command-line console? That would be the best way to access many
> applications since iceweasel (firefox) is current and less
> likely to slip through the cracks as some of the older nitch
> applications have done.

Probably not - see above.

Unfortunately, I do not know any text-mode browsers which support
javascript. Actually, I have found myself occasionally using text-mode
browser exactly for that reason.

I wish you luck in your search though - surely you cannot be the only
searching..

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Regards

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