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".
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.
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.