From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:01:07 -0500 Message-ID: <8763dyf9n0.fsf@comcast.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247402428 22166 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 12:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 14:40:21 2009 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 1MPyLt-00080D-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPyLs-0007rK-3c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPyLl-0007rC-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPyLh-0007r0-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55067 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPyLh-0007qx-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34449 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPyLg-0006B0-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MPyLb-0004ux-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:40:03 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net ([98.211.29.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:40:03 +0000 Original-Received: from rdc1x by c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:40:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cIH1W5ePtIFbyPrXMwFaMvfBBNU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:112363 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Maybe the most promising direction I can see is to try and make some > library (like webkit) render directly into an Emacs buffer (rather than > X11/Cairo/w32/plaintext/younameit). >From a personal standpoint, this is the best idea I've seen in this thread. I'm a daily user of emacs/w3 and an more than occasional user of emacs-w3m. Being partially sighted and reliant on emacspeak, I _really_ like the idea of having text rendered into a buffer where it acts just like any other buffer. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net