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: Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20161019163806.7c77f100@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <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> <20161019090741.46ea2704@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476909538 6289 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2016 20:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rekado@elephly.net, jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 22:38:53 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 1bwxcw-0005ID-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:38:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxcz-0004YL-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxco-0004Ww-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxcn-0000ar-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:45664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxcl-0000Zf-TU; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F185623E; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:06 -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 D03B82DE015; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:38:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: 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:208505 Archived-At: On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:02:21 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > > Just an aside: that only works for X users as things stand. > > I doubt that we can make a graphical browser work on a text > terminal. Aside from that and X, aren't there only secondary > platforms such as nonfree operating systems? Wayland is on the horizon for Linux. X doesn't have an infinite life ahead of it, it dates from the 1980s and the free OS world is working to move past it (thus Wayland). I suspect that simply adopting Webkit (which is LGPL already) directly will probably fix most potential portability problems, since the Webkit people have to support whatever is used on most platforms already. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com