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

[Jude DaShiell]

edbrowse can do gmail.  The edbrowse approach is to take all javascript in
and ignore everything that doesn't make sense for a text terminal.


On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, David Woolley wrote:

> 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.)
>
>