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

[Karen Lewellen]

Jude,
To be specific.
Edbrowse can visit a page like this,
mail.google.com
allow one to enter their username and password,
Then present  the basic html webpage for gmail?
Karen



On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> 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.)