Lynx browser & Hotmail?

[Joseph]

Hello all, I am trying to access Hotmail emails from Lynx browser but
have no success. I downloaded recent Lynx version that supports SSL.
And
I am able to put in username, password and click log on. However
after I
log on, all I got is a blank screen. Does anyone know any tricks to
access and read Hotmail from Lynx? I am running Lynx 2.8.6rel.5
(09May2007) with libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a, ncurses
5.4.20040724 built on Linux-gnu Jun 18 2007 :)

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Lynx browser & Hotmail?

Joseph wrote:

Hello all, I am trying to access Hotmail emails from Lynx browser but
have no success. I downloaded recent Lynx version that supports SSL.
And
I am able to put in username, password and click log on. However
after I
log on, all I got is a blank screen. Does anyone know any tricks to
access and read Hotmail from Lynx? I am running Lynx 2.8.6rel.5
(09May2007) with libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a, ncurses
5.4.20040724 built on Linux-gnu Jun 18 2007 :)

Hi Joseph,

Hotmail relies heavily on JavaScript.
Lynx doesn't have javascript (last time I checked, some zillion years ago).

So that will not work.

Is downloading a modern browser an option for you?
Like Firefox?

If not you could try to interact with hotmail via other software.
I know PHP has a few classes/libs that deal with Hotmail, but I do not know
any details. Could be worth a shot. (http:www.phpclasses.org)

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[andrew]

Re: Lynx browser & Hotmail?

On 2007-06-18, Joseph <spmok2@canada. comwrote:

Hello all, I am trying to access Hotmail emails from Lynx browser but
have no success. I downloaded recent Lynx version that supports SSL.
And
I am able to put in username, password and click log on. However
after I
log on, all I got is a blank screen. Does anyone know any tricks to
access and read Hotmail from Lynx? I am running Lynx 2.8.6rel.5
(09May2007) with libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a, ncurses
5.4.20040724 built on Linux-gnu Jun 18 2007 :)

Just for curiosity have you tried gmail with lynx?

Andrew


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[Bruce Lewis]

Re: Lynx browser &amp; Hotmail?

andrew <nospam@andrew. invalidwrites:

Just for curiosity have you tried gmail with lynx?

There's a basic HTML view for gmail that works OK once you get used to
it. It relies on underline to show which messages are new, so I
suspect it wouldn't work well with screen readers.

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[andrew]

Re: Lynx browser &amp; Hotmail?

On 2007-06-19, Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo. comwrote:

andrew <nospam@andrew. invalidwrites:
>

>Just for curiosity have you tried gmail with lynx?

>
There's a basic HTML view for gmail that works OK once you get used to
it. It relies on underline to show which messages are new, so I
suspect it wouldn't work well with screen readers.

Had a quick look at your header:

User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4

and I was a little curious as to how many gnus users (!!) there are
out there? Is there a NG that is frequented, as slrn users congregate
at news.software.r eaders?

Andrew


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[Lars Eighner]

Re: Lynx browser &amp; Hotmail?

In our last episode,
<1182203458.378 874.226350@q19g 2000prn.googleg roups.com>, the lovely and
talented Joseph broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

Hello all, I am trying to access Hotmail emails from Lynx browser but

Evidently, Hotmail uses javascript and Lynx doesn do javascript.

elinks does some javascript (enough to make MySpace sort of useable),
but I don't know if it knows enough to do Hotmail. links apparently
set out to do things including javascript, but so far as can tell,
there isn't much active development and they have not got very far
on javascript.

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[Bruce Lewis]

Re: Lynx browser &amp; Hotmail?

andrew <nospam@andrew. invalidwrites:

Had a quick look at your header:
>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4
>
and I was a little curious as to how many gnus users (!!) there are
out there? Is there a NG that is frequented, as slrn users congregate
at news.software.r eaders?

I'm not sure. I haven't looked for a place to congregate with other
users. I can tell you that there are plenty of people out there who
still read mail in emacs.

To tie this back in to the topic of HTML, there's one gotcha to watch
for if you want to accommodate people who don't take HTML email. The
canonical "right solution" is to send a multipart/alternative message
with a text/plain part in addition to the text/html part. This works
fine for the original message. The gotcha happens when someone using
Outlook (and likely other HTML-capable mail user agents) forwards the
message. The text/plain part ends up discarded, and the work you put
into making it nice is lost. I found this problem making class notes
for my college alumni class. The class secretary was using ourdoings
to prepare photo-illustrated updates. She subscribed her own address
since that was easy, then forwarded the ourdoings message to the rest
of the class. It didn't work well for text-based mail, including the
gnus reader I use. So we had to put the class mailing list itself on
the subscription list directly. That caused incorrect unsubscription
instructions to be included, before the correct ones that the mailing
list always appends. But I will have that problem corrected shortly.

Sorry if the above is worded awkwardly. My lines started lining up and
I couldn't stop. (You won't see this unless you view my message in a
fixed-width font.)

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[Stan Brown]

Re: Lynx browser &amp; Hotmail?

21 Jun 2007 11:31:50 -0400 from Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo. com>:

To tie this back in to the topic of HTML, there's one gotcha to watch
for if you want to accommodate people who don't take HTML email. The
canonical "right solution" is to send a multipart/alternative message
with a text/plain part in addition to the text/html part.

Or, of course, just don't send HTML at all. Plain text works darn
well. :-)

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