Run emacs in the browser with gtk broadway

Run emacs in the browser with gtk broadway

[Thomas Koch]

Hi,

are you aware of project "broadway"[1] by Alexander Larsson[2]? It's an HTML5 
rendering backend for GTK. Am I too naive when I'm hoping to run emacs with 
its help in the browser?

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/log/?h=broadway
[2] http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/category/gtk/

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

Re: Run emacs in the browser with gtk broadway

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

2 nov 2012 kl. 17:44 skrev Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>:

> Hi,
> 
> are you aware of project "broadway"[1] by Alexander Larsson[2]? It's an HTML5 
> rendering backend for GTK. Am I too naive when I'm hoping to run emacs with 
> its help in the browser?
> 
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/log/?h=broadway
> [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/category/gtk/
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

It is an achivement, but I don't quite see the point, you still need an Emacs binary run locally.
Maybe Emacs can be run on a server and the browser pointed to it, probably a security nightmare.

But Emacs does not use Gtk+-events, but has a rather non-standard event handling that depends on X11. I suspect that is a showstopper.

	Jan D.

Re: Run emacs in the browser with gtk broadway

[William Stevenson]

Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:
> are you aware of project "broadway"[1] by Alexander Larsson[2]? It's an HTML5 
> rendering backend for GTK. Am I too naive when I'm hoping to run emacs with 
> its help in the browser?

The Secure Shell plugin for chrome is one way to do that today:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo