[MPlayer-users] Any Suggestion as to How to Get This NPR File?

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Tue Sep 5 00:06:05 CEST 2006


	A couple of times, now, I have wanted to hear certain
reports from NPR and found exactly what I wanted on their web
site but couldn't download them due to javascript.  As I like to
say, javascript is a cure for which there was no known disease.
The world caught the cure, however, so what some of us need is an
antidote to the "cure."

	As a UNIX user who is also blind, I do not have access to
mozzilla, firefox, etc which require either MS Windows or X to
run.    We've got lynx, links and w3m which are all text-based
browsers which don't do anything useful when confronted with
ecmascript.  After all, whose javascript do you emulate?  Is it
Microsoft or Netscape?

	Is there any good way to get past this and download the
good stuff when we come across it and it is locked up in one of
these type sites?  The story I was trying to read was about
yellow jacket nests growing to large sizes after Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5756746

This isn't exactly the story of the century, but it is
representative of the normal technical problems in trying to use
the NPR site so I thought I would ask to see if there is any kind
of work-around.

	Many thanks for any ideas.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group



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