From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Jackson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87zlmnezy9.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> References: <18624.40059.414121.633475@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220604878 3031 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2008 08:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Michael Reilly , raman@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 10:55:31 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 1KbX5E-0004T5-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbX4E-0000FR-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbX46-0000D5-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbX44-0000BO-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35075 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbX43-0000B6-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk ([81.187.30.53]:56270) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbX43-0007IA-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from 241.28.187.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.187.28.241] helo=home-desktop) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbX3w-0006lJ-Jd; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:44:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8164/Fri Sep 5 07:39:30 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) 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:103554 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: >> 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? > > It's somewhat possible to do this already. I mailed a patch to > emacs-devel some time ago that lets Emacs embed gtk widgets in a > buffer, like images. (Its very alpha but shows that its possible, at > least) So, out of interest, how would a Javascript engine (if any) and elisp co-exist in any sort of harmony? Cheers, Phil -- Philip Jackson http://www.shellarchive.co.uk