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

[David Woolley]

On 18/11/2021 00:37, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> the basic html webpage for gmail

The modern trend would be that there is no such thing available to 
display.  Typically there will be a JSON file containing the the list of 
messages, and an HTML 5 web application that reads that file and 
dynamically creates a document object model in the browser, which the 
browser then renders.

I don't know that that is the case for gmail.  However, it is certainly 
the way that ancestry.co.uk  and nextdoor.co.uk work for normal users. 
I haven't tried these without scripting, so I can't say for certain that 
they don't have a fall back mode, but I'd be surprised.  Both of these 
examples actually put the page together from a large number of JSON 
files, which often contain more information than is actually rendered, 
in any one page, or which is rendered with the less than the available 
detail (e.g. Nextdoor has exact posting times, but only displays 
approximate ones, with less detail the further in the past).

HTML 5 was specified by a breakaway group, called WHATWG.  The A stands 
for applications.  Modern big player web pages are  programs that run in 
the browser, not documents.  That probably applies to the page creation 
services marketed to people who want a page for their business, but 
don't want to know how to write one.