Re: Using xwidget to play youtube videos

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > It's using an xwidget, which is basically a wrapper over a Webkit
  > window, which will, indeed, run any Javascript that's present in the URL
  > presented to it.

Can users use any widget type they like, or is Emacs limited
to running this specific widget which uses Webkit?

I think I heard Webkit is free software, but it the browser we want to
recommend is IceCat.  Is there a widget version of IceCat, that Emacs
could use?

  >   I
  > think the only support for videos in eww will be for the HTML5 <video>
  > element (via xwidget), which isn't very Javascripty, if I understand
  > things correctly.

EWW is totally different from the xwidget feature, right?  If so,
EWW and xwidget are unrelated issues.

The HTML <video> construct works without Javascript; but Youtube and
some other sites use it together with nonfree JS code, in such a way
that it won't work unless the browser runs the JS code.




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