Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Karen Lewellen wrote in <Pine.LNX.4.64.1911081152100.28917@server2.shell\
world.net>:
 |Alejandro,
 |I would appreciate a step by step, including where on the page the option 
 |for   first choosing then saving basic html as  an option is located.
 |My test drive did not work last night, but I suspect the problem may be 
 |tied  to the person helping me already having a gmail account that  there 
 |system remembered.
 |They, using chrome, managed to log in as me,  with my guiding them to a 
 |basic html display of my inbox.  I am  unsure exactly how they managed it, 
 |logging out, assuming they did so from the correct place, has made no 
 |difference  to my reaching my own account at all, let alone in Lynx.
 |can you provide a fine tuned set of instructions?
 |I am going to try again, from a library here in Canada, instead of getting 
 |help  from an associate stateside.
 |Still, as I have no idea what they are seeing, the more precise the 
 |directions,  the more likely we will be successful.

As far as i see the option is gone.
The only chance you have is to be very quick at the login screen,
right after you have entered the password, while it loads, there
is the necessary link at the bottom of the page.  (I.e., first
screen to enter the name, second screen to enter the password,
then the third can shortly be seen -- maybe tell your helper to
very quickly hit the stop-load button, and i hope your browser
does that, then, instead of continuing the asynchronous load.)

Funnily the basic HTML always offers the possibility to switch to
the other one.  Also funnily, only the rich version allows marking
all messages on the screen, so as to move them to trash.  (I just
cleared my GMail history.)

Hope this helps.

--steffen
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