Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx access to gmail accounts

[David Woolley]

On 17/11/2021 22:02, dan d. wrote:
> For that matter, is there a general solution for web pages which refuse lynx 
> for that reason?

There can't be any general solution other than to use a browser that 
fully implements HTML 5, EcmaScript, and the associated browser and 
document and CSS object models.  That would be such a radical rewrite 
that would have little or no original code, or code structure, left.

I believe other text browser implement certain common idioms, but are 
not general solutions.

I'm not convinced it is possible in a text browser, but the way to do it 
would be to put a character cell rendering engine onto the Firefox or 
Chrome engines, not to adapt the Lynx code.

(To get something that worked well in text-only, but only for well 
written pages, you would also need to fully implement Aria support. 
This is a way of telling accessibility tools the real semantics of the 
page, even when the HTML semantics are only used for visual effect, and 
therefore requires accessibility aware authoring.)