Bug 307311

Summary:	Enable Javascript support in elinks
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Toshio Ernie Kuratomi <a.badger>
Component:	elinks	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2007-09-26 16:28:50 UTC

Description of problem:
elinks is capable of linking against the js library to provide a text mode,
javascript enabled browser (not as full featured as firefox but a step in the
right direction.)  

Is there any reason not to enable this for Fedora 9?

Additional info:
Elinks Manual page for building with javascript::
  http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch01s06.html

We're packaging SpiderMonkey as "js".

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2007-12-05 13:05:34 UTC

There was already discussion about that in debian. You could read it here -
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428549 . Upstream maintainer
wrote that ECMAScript support in ELinks 0.11.1 has several bugs that can
cause SIGSEGV and that Debian shouldn't activate javascript by default for that
version. All known SIGSEGV's for javascripts are fixed in 0.12GIT, but this is
still not released as 0.12 because of some regressions. So I'm adding keywords
Future Feature - this will be not activated for elinks 0.11.3 by default, you
can easily activate it yourself if you want.

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2008-07-02 10:04:28 UTC

Today I did update to Elinks0.12pre1 in RAWHIDE. At
http://elinks.or.cz/release.html you can see that upstream recommends to disable
ECMASRIPT support by default and if necessary, to restrict elinks somehow in
sandbox to prevent possible malicious code issues. Therefore closing that
bugzilla WONTFIX, ECMAScript support will be not enabled in Fedora by default
until mentioned upstream bugzillas will be solved. As soon as the ECMAScript
support will be more safe (those bugzillas closed), I will enable the support in
Rawhide.