Re: Emacs for forums?

[James Taylor <james@openmail.cc>]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> writes:
>> Also, anything that makes EWW better is great to me.
>
> I think w3m makes EWW better, at least in some ways. But it seems a big
> issue is that so many sites require Javascript, and there is no real way
> to handle that right now within the available Emacs options. (Say that
> Javascript is evil if you will, but for better or worse it's a
> requirement on all too many websites.)
>
> What we really need is the next step up from EWW and w3m, but it would
> be a huge amount of work.

I don't know about "evil", though I don't like it. As you've said, it's
ubiquity is a brute fact.

Really, there aren't any real objections that I have to integrating it
from the outside in, and yet, if one were to go that far, you might as
well focus all that effort on improving xwebkit. My one gripe about that
particular effort is that it's coming along rather slowly, probably
because it's such a niche interest no matter how you slice it.

When it comes to Emacs, it's almost never that it *can't* be done, only whether
it *will*. And some projects are going to get stuck in the *will*
question, inevitably.

*sigh*