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.) > >
