From: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Kenjiro NAKAYAMA <nakayamakenjiro@gmail.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eww and Javascript?
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 02:47:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2370633.BTWYtO0OQo@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y52i2gb8.fsf@dhcp-193-97.nrt.redhat.com>
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 10:18:35 Kenjiro NAKAYAMA wrote:
> > > Does eww run Javascript code?
> >
> > No.
>
> This qustion will be asked many times in the future. So I want to be more
> clear. At this time, eww has no plan to add javascript engine?
> I recognize eww is simple browser and it has no intention of adding rich
> function.
Well technically a limited support might be possible. Steve Yegge wrote a
JavaScript interpreter for elisp called Ejacs[1]. But providing proper
JavaScript support would require implementing the DOM and then we would still
be faced by the fact that Emacs display model is too limited for full HTML and
CSS rendering (Although work on WYSIWYG functionality will certainly help
improving what EWW/`shr.el' can render). So all in all it would require a lot
of work and yield very little in practical terms.
I think the main use case for EWW will be reading documentation written in
HTML, bug trackers, and other simple websites. None of which should really
require JavaScript or fancy CSS layouts. It should be noted that EWW does
support some HTML5 features. At least without JavaScript we don't have to
worry about all the security and privacy implications.
If we want a "full browser experience" within GNU Emacs then the best bet is
probably the xwidget branch and embedding an existing rendering engine.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/ejacs/wiki/README
Regards,
Rüdiger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 17:09 eww and Javascript? Richard Stallman
2014-01-14 17:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-15 1:18 ` Kenjiro NAKAYAMA
2014-01-15 1:47 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld [this message]
2014-01-15 6:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-15 12:30 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-15 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-15 12:01 ` Jordan Wilson
2014-01-16 17:53 ` Richard Stallman
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