How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?

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Text-based browsers like ELinks, Lynx, and w3m struggle with modern HTML features. While they handle basic HTML well, recent additions like disclosure widgets, dialogs, popovers, and the inert attribute are either ignored or improperly rendered. The most problematic issue is the complete lack of support for the hidden attribute, causing hidden content to display visibly. This creates challenges for progressive enhancement techniques that rely on hiding content in HTML before revealing it with CSS or JavaScript. The gap between text-based browsers and modern web standards continues to widen.

Text-based web browsers

How do text-based web browsers handle modern HTML?

The author is at the FSF member stage
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In my opinion this guy took a wrong direction. It’s like to write an article how hard or almost impossible to achieve the Moon on the mountain bike. I used Lynx to read the docs and make web searches on the old Google versions.
HTML here is to represent the document and data structures, and link them to another related documents. Not for visual representation. And that was a clear task of the web designer, to keep it separately – this structure and its visual representation. There was no CSS at all that time, the layout was done with hrs, divs, spans and tables, the animations – with JS and images. Then came CSS. We kept these two concepts for a long time separately: data and its visual representation in *.htm, *.js and *.css files.
Now these borders are blurred – code, CSS and HTML are mixed in the JS frameworks components, HTML is mixing structure and visual representation. OK, this is inevitable development of the HTML and I could say that Lynx can’t reproduce the web page correctly because of the inconsistent HTML and this would be correct assertion. In some way.
The concept of the text based browsers is not to represent the visually reach web pages with JS support. At the time of Linx there were no graphical browsers at all. The scientists and students used it to access distributed scientific documentation.
Just use suitable tool for particular task.
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Lynx: Released in 1992 (originally as a hypertext browser for accessing distributed information on the University of Kansas campus network)
Mosaic (1993) - first popular graphical browser, made the web accessible to mainstream users
Netscape Navigator (1994)
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I used w3m to access BBC WAP pages on the company server when I spent my days in the server room configuring Ubuntu Dapper.