On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>    A browser inside Emacs: do you agree that this would only make sense
>    if all text editing was governed by Emacs, i.e. each text area was
>    handled by Emacs directly as a buffer?
>    (Is that doable with the new Gecko library?)
>
> I agree.  If it is a matter only of having a browser display inside
> the Emacs frame, we might as well do so by fork/exec'ing the other
> program and telling it to display on part of the Emacs frame.
>

It is hard for me to tell how much work this would be since I am so
unfamiliar with both codebases - it would certainly be useful though.  I
will try to research how this could be done; nothing in the Mozilla docs on
embedding mentioned that it could be told to draw an a part of another
window, but there may be a standard way to do this or perhaps I missed
something in their documentation.  This may be the type of approach that
offers a fairly good effort/benefit ratio though; every time I have to leave
Emacs, it's a little annoying.