Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx access to Cyclos

[David Woolley]

On 18/01/2024 08:04, Osvaldo La rosa aka Aldo wrote:
> - if yes why not implementing it or why not implemeent a feature that could
> be used from within the Linux terminal.
> (NB: I tried the same site with Links2, it doesn't work too)

Fully supporting scripting  based web applications would require a 
complete rewrite of Lynx.  Even then it might not work well, as there is 
a good chance that application would make fundamental assumptions about 
having a graphical display.

Lynx does not create an HTML5 document object model, does not implement 
the de facto graphical browser object models and does not contain a 
scripting interpreter.

Some other text browsers use heuristics to cope with common constructs, 
but the will not cope with many modern sites, which often create the 
page in the browser, and download multiple, typically JSON, data files, 
to populate it.  If you get a page that initially displays place 
holders, on a leading brand graphical browser, you are probably dealing 
with such a site.