From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:42:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87prnhrrgd.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> <87zlmnezy9.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> <48C0FC53.4020806@gmail.com> <6fa54e4e0809050420i5132ace5red5a011b69ecd1ed@mail.gmail.com> <87myilkyyf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220730036 18839 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 19:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Antoine Levitt , raman@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phil@shellarchive.co.uk To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 21:41:29 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 1Kc3ex-0001eC-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:41:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc3dx-0008N4-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc3dt-0008KJ-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc3ds-0008JN-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40653 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc3ds-0008JJ-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:45609) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc3do-00068z-E8; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D028757E2BF; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:42:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:58:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) 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:103601 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: > Again I want to shamelessly promote my project: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsXembed > > I havent worked on it lately, but this thread is starting to make me > want to prove that its possible to embed a browser. > > The thing that actually stopped me from demoing browser embedding, > rather that video etc, is that I didnt find a browser which supported > being embedded with xembed. It shouldnt be a big problem, though, to > modify a gnome based browser to use a xembeddable widget as main > window. I haven't had time to look at your code, but if you already got embedded GTK applications to work, it might be possible to use GtkMozEmbed: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html The main problem is that their documentation looks pretty sketchy.