From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20161019090741.46ea2704@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvi9a3mh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161012165911.58437154@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> <20161013092701.77461800@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83y41nx8l6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87vawosoul.fsf@elephly.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476882540 3380 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2016 13:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 15:08:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bwqc3-00005G-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:08:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwqc5-0006Za-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwqaz-0005vz-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwqau-0007af-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:44540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwqau-0007aW-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2170A23E; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7E12DE015; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:07:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87vawosoul.fsf@elephly.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208472 Archived-At: On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:52:02 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Emacs has the potential for a fully functional browser since the > addition of the xwidget feature. (The current implementation is > not yet very usable but it doesn=E2=80=99t take much work to make it usab= le > enough for common browsing tasks.) Just an aside: that only works for X users as things stand. There's no Webkit integration for users of other windowing platforms at the moment. Perry --=20 Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com