From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:14 -0400 Message-ID: <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> References: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220590411 3273 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2008 04:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 06:54:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbTKz-0005yN-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:54:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbTJz-00052I-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbTJt-0004zq-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbTJs-0004yY-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52607 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbTJs-0004yH-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.pajato.com ([68.191.253.210]:57224 helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbTJr-00018W-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]) by copa.pajato.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m854rE8I017779; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:53:14 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]); Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:14 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103548 Archived-At: T. V. Raman wrote: > Persoanlly I'd prefer the embedding to go in the other direction, > i.e. embed something like Webkit inside Emacs, ask Webki to > render the Web into an emacs buffer, and enable full DOM access > from Emacs Lisp. > > This way security sandboxing can be per whatever webkit does, and > emacs which typically runs with more previleges wouldn't have to > worry about code that comes from the network doing unsafe things. And this approach would appear to have a platform independent nature, highly appealing. I don't know anything about Webkit. Are you talking about adding Webkit to the C level of Emacs, doing an Emacs Lisp binding to Webkit (probably running in a separate process or mulitple processes ala Chrome) or something else? -pmr