Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> 2) Say one wants to do things like viewing something with javascript
> off and without loading remote elements (say because one wants to
> safely view some HTML email). What does one need to do to get this
> to work?

The widget is not fully integrated into Emacs.  The extent to which one
can conveniently communicate with the widget is by sending a string
containing a JavaScript program to the widget and have it return a
value.  Everything else requires exposing Webkit API features to Elisp.

Attached is an old patch that I never submitted that allows one to set
webkit settings via Elisp.  Unfortunately, disabling JavaScript for the
widget also disables JavaScript evaluation of strings that are sent from
Emacs – we use JavaScript for telling the widget to scroll, for example.
(See “xwidget-webkit-scroll-bottom” or “xwidget-webkit-show-element”.)