A NetSurf coder has sparked debate over the future of the web browser by suggesting ways in which JavaScript support and other features can be developed. In tentative plans sketched out by John-Mark Bell, which are to be discussed with fellow programmers, he suggested that version 2.0 of NetSurf could feature JavaScript support.
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It's worth noting that Netsurf can be built on Linux using GTK.
See: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/screenshots/
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And now built on Kubuntu (thanks to diomus for help on IRC).
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/kubuntu_netsurf.jpg
It seems a bit basic in operation but the source is impressively small and quick to build.
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Fortunately, I did. netsurf/Docs/BUILDING-GTK contains a guide to building it, and I produced that document while working on Ubuntu, and checked that it worked on Debian.
TTOTD: Check to see if the documentation you want is in the documentation directory before asking.
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what the f--k is NetSurf?
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A natural enough question. I'd never heard of it, either. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSurf
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Whoever thought it was a good idea to put scripting in to html documents was a very bad person.
Javascript, although being a fairly nice language, is abused to all hell by web developers and is, in most cases, completely unescessary.
Even OSNEWS is using javascript in it's site, although since I'm running NoScript and everything seems to work fine I can't imagine what they are actually using it for.
If it wasn't for badly developed pages and abused techonologies web browsers wouldn't be the monster that they are.
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I'm a full supporter of scripting in HTML (though obviously theres a time and a place for javascript) - it's flash I have a problem with.
While I can see the benefit of flash under some circumstances (youtube being one of the few), Flash gets abused far more than it's put to a realistic functional use ('arty' sites built entirely in flash being a great example)
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Just because technology is open to abused does not make it a bad idea.
While I agree that scripting a 'document' format is unwise, it's a good thing Javascript was snuck in the browser back in the day because if it wasn't, it wouldn't now be available to script other forms of XML (such as SVG, though painfully people still use HTML as a general display language instead).