From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Hackney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Mergeability of xwidget patch? Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:01:32 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308518100 4807 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2011 21:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:15:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 23:14:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYPKW-000651-CA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:14:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYPKU-00057r-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYOBw-0003yu-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYOBv-0000Fw-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:38795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYOBu-0000Fo-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so431074bwz.0 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:01:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=haxney.org; s=google; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=exaq0aOOQzaDnyKVH/c1JLJWlq2bDL1dRt6dYAzdvDE=; b=eKufpj1S6s73NyrUCOsIHhf4tq748Y9Iexy3YgHWchP1JoPIjHC4zDUecChEmdwz6o /53tdeDTydMiZKlGDLZe+SYChVpdtfH1FWa2dxnlystM/25bnHhsYe53AWeDkAVrvyRz 3/mjH+qkdpyjzqCUHh7iXhavXBQHc4oa21CGo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=haxney.org; s=google; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=TT0dVqE26Iup7OWrCTnqjactOCmDZNLISMgoBt7M1EDBslT8R0FIkJr4WWhU0nHWaN xNWDelJzTy9yIVMEUWU0B30LDhSsJsyRIhxBnUqX6JnaDLpM1ZIL7eSQSPccHDhFK/EP yKptRLHkFQaIA/rdubMtHuAWC20uZNMEwmDhM= Original-Received: by 10.205.24.9 with SMTP id rc9mr1569262bkb.92.1308513712536; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.187.228 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:01:32 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:05:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140686 Archived-At: I'm the developer of Ezbl [1], a package which embeds the Uzbl web browser within Emacs. Ezbl depends on the xwidget patch by Joakim Verona, which is in the Emacs repo under the "xwidget" branch. I'd like to have Ezbl be available to people without them having to install a separate branch of Emacs (especially since it hasn't kept up with the trunk). I would like to know how close the xwidget patches are to being fit for the 24.1 trunk and what still needs to be done. I'm not much of a C programmer, and don't know the C-level internals of Emacs well, but I'm willing to learn for the sake of getting this patch completed and merged in. I think it would be a great feature to have in 24.1, but I heard the feature freeze was coming soon-ish, so I understand if it has to be pushed back. I'd love to have Ezbl available to those using the trunk and especially folks who use stable releases. I think it could be a powerful addition to the Emacs ecosystem by adding HTML5 support (through WebKit) into the mix. It's also possible to communicate with the embedded Uzbl instance through JavaScript, so there's a lot of potential there. Thanks, Daniel Hackney P.S. I'm not on the mailing list, so if you could CC me on replies, it'll be easier for me to communicate. Sorry for the inconvenience. [1] https://github.com/haxney/ezbl -- Daniel M. Hackney