From: joakim@verona.se
To: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:44:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vzz6qi7.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> (Paul Michael Reilly's message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:14 -0400")
Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com> writes:
> T. V. Raman wrote:
>> Persoanlly I'd prefer the embedding to go in the other direction,
>> i.e. embed something like Webkit inside Emacs, ask Webki to
>> render the Web into an emacs buffer, and enable full DOM access
>> from Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> This way security sandboxing can be per whatever webkit does, and
>> emacs which typically runs with more previleges wouldn't have to
>> worry about code that comes from the network doing unsafe things.
>
> 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)
>
> -pmr
>
>
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 22:18 An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 0:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-05 0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05 2:42 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 4:53 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 6:44 ` joakim [this message]
2008-09-05 8:53 ` Phil Jackson
2008-09-05 9:21 ` joakim
2008-09-05 9:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 11:20 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 7:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 10:48 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 21:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 21:36 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:25 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 23:08 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:41 ` Sean O'Rourke
2008-09-07 23:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 16:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 16:58 ` joakim
2008-09-06 19:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 20:20 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:54 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-06 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 17:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 17:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 12:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 17:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 19:05 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 19:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 20:27 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 21:33 ` joakim
2008-09-08 21:46 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 22:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 13:33 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 13:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 20:40 ` Christian Faulhammer
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