Gmail is now broken on Lynx?

[Jean Jordaan]

Hi there

This evening I had occasion to use gmail from an ssh session to a
remote machine. In the past, this worked.

Apart from all the warnings about invalid cookie paths ("Accept
invalid cookie path=/calendar as a prefix of '/accounts'? (n) ") and
certificates ("SSL error:Can't find common name in
certificate-Continue? (y)") I was disappointed to find that the list
of mails contains only checkboxes -- no link that takes one to the
mail, and so no way to reply. Can this be?

I looked for a "basic HTML" link, but there was none and there was a
message: "For a better Gmail experience, use a fully supported
browser."

What a stupid message. It's like telling someone in a wheelchair that
they should use a fully supported pair of legs. If I'm using lynx
there's a reason, dammit.

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jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\

[Sean Murphy]

     It might be a good idea to suggest to Google that they add lynx to the list of supported browsers. The link for suggesting new features to add is on the Help Center page, on the right.

Forewarned...

...Is half an Octopus.

[Jean Jordaan]

> It might be a good idea to suggest to Google that they add lynx to the
> list of supported browsers.

Done, for what that's worth. After submission one gets an obtuse
"Thank you" and the request is gone into the void. A tracker URL to
http://code.google.com/p/gmail/ (doesn't exist) would be the proper
response.

Sorry for being so curmudgeonly ..

[Sean Murphy]

    That is just the first suggestion. go back periodically, and re-suggest it. I have already seen a suggestion I made move from write-in to one of the pre-filled ones you can check to implementation, so it works. It depends on how much interest there is in it, and I am sure there are other users of Lynx who would like to be able toaccess Gmail with it, not to mention other users of other browses that would liek to be able to sue Gmail through them. Much like getting a help request to Yahoo, patience and repetition are the keys. there are a lot of requests for new features being made, and I imagine only so many people working on Gmail over at Google...

Forewarned...

...Is half an Octopus.

[Santiago Perez]

Hi Jean, you can try accessing the basic html url directly it's:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html

or

http://mail.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN/?ui=html (if you're using google apps)

I tried it in lynx and I can see my inbox and navigate through folders and labels but I couldn't find a way to open a message.

However, I've also tried it with elinks and it works like a charm, the screen distribution is much better and I can open the messages without problems. If the console is configured properly, I can even click on links and use the wheel to scroll.

note that you need to hit enter to edit text fields in elinks, otherwise keystrokes are used for shortcuts

Cheers,
Santiago