From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:44:32 +0200 Message-ID: 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 1220597107 7392 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2008 06:45:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 08:46:02 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 1KbV4y-0003M3-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbV3z-0005sH-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbV3u-0005sC-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbV3s-0005s0-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38340 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbV3s-0005rx-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:36694) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbV3r-0007Rp-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64] helo=gate.verona.se) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbV3p-00083G-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m856iZau022400; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:44:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48C0BB3A.4080201@pajato.com> (Paul Michael Reilly's message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:103550 Archived-At: Paul Michael Reilly 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