From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Alternative input formats Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:38:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87wq66ufyt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tx18vl0v.fsf@dod.no> <87iohnvh3m.fsf@dod.no> <877fy3lmm4.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <877fy3vcw4.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418006368 19467 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 02:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 02:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Steinar Bang , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 03:39:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxoEK-00071c-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:39:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxoEJ-0002BB-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:39:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxoE8-0002B3-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxoE1-000715-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:21867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxoE0-000710-SC; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:39:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekBdYB4RIBYsBpC6BeIQZIYE0gUMBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekBdYB4RIBYsBpC6BeIQZIYE0gUMBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99821910" Original-Received: from 69-196-184-187.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.184.187]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 07 Dec 2014 21:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 051869896; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 21:38:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:25:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:179353 Archived-At: > If we develop software to browse HTML manuals made by Texifo with all > the good features of info, then we can drop use of Info format. You can definitely get "as good as Info" (or close enough) when browsing HTML within a browser like Iceweasel, although it will almost invariably be a lot more sluggish. But getting this within Emacs, for "full HTML" sounds pretty difficult, both because of limitations of Emacs's redisplay code, and because "full HTML" nowadays goes much beyond the SGML markup language and includes Javascript along with a large runtime library. So it would necessarily have to be limited to a specific subset of HTML. Stefan