Re: Lynx access to gmail accounts

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.
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> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, David Woolley wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> I believe other text browser implement certain common idioms, but are not
>> general solutions.
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>> 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.
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>> (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.)
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