From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrey Kotlarski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inclusion of emacs-w3m Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:44:33 +0300 Message-ID: <87ehmgqh4u.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87txw9r9o2.fsf@kanis.fr> <871uihst4z.fsf@gnus.org> <87pq61k48h.fsf@kanis.fr> <87d320a6jd.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346881498 27449 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 21:44:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:44:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 23:45:00 2012 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 1T9NPA-0005aF-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:45:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9NP7-0008ER-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9NP4-0008EI-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9NP2-0000Ki-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9NP2-0000Kb-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9NP3-0005WJ-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:44:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 77-85-16-191.btc-net.bg ([77.85.16.191]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:44:53 +0200 Original-Received: from m00naticus by 77-85-16-191.btc-net.bg with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:44:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77-85-16-191.btc-net.bg User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-SMTP-Server: smtp.gmail.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:vfR4xqj18vh8xqWdwhRnEmxnq2U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:153079 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ivan Kanis writes: > >>> Now that Emacs proper has an HTML parser (via libxml2), an HTML renderer >>> (via shr.el), and an HTTP library (via url*.el), writing a totally >>> Emacs-based web browser should be pretty easy for somebody who has some >>> time to spare. >> >> I don't think it's that easy. > > Why not? You just need to add some bookmarking stuff and a cookie > editor, and you're done. There is w3, though unmaintained for years. Until some threading support comes to Elisp, such packages would suffer. > Oh, and forms support. And stuff. It shouldn't take anybody more than > a month to implement a full-featured Emacs browser. (Well. As > full-featured as a totally non-JS browser will ever be.) If the rumours of Guile Elisp nearing working integration with GNU/Emacs are right and as Guile has support for Javascript too (not to mention native threads), that could open some doors. -- It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain