Re: what is the status of the JavaScript reader?

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 03:01:37PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> It would be great if it could be bundled with the regular texinfo release,
> and have 'makeinfo --html-js' "just work", even if it's marked "experimental".
> 
> (Perhaps also add --html-no-js or --html-plain flag as a synonym for --html,
> in case we ever want to make --html default to --html-js in the future.)

The last that was done with it was to distribute it on alpha.gnu.org
(https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-js-0.0.90.tar.gz) and 
advertise it on this mailing list.  I don't know of anybody using it for 
a real purpose.

I suppose bundling it into the regular Texinfo release would give it 
more visibility.  It's likely that somebody would like to use it.  It is 
less than a MB when compressed and wouldn't increase the package size 
too much.

In a separate development, I started a WebKitGTK based browser for 
Texinfo HTML documentation, but lost interest in it.  (Embeddable HTML 
renderers all seem quite awkward to use.)  I've posted about this before
on this list.