From: joakim@verona.se
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:22:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3skf96u0u.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk52fc79d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:24:49 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> First, I would like to know if you agree about the reasons for having
>> a web browser in Emacs (either as part of it or as an external lisp
>> package).
>
> I'd like to see Emacs support things like javascript better, as well as
> web-browsing. The Emacs/W3 way is sadly unworkable because of the
> amount of effort this requires (compounded by the performance
> limitations of Elisp). Embedding a whole web-browser like Firefox might
> be a good direction, tho it's probably too coarse to be satisfactory.
> E.g. I'd like to be able to use Emacs's own completion code when typing
> the URL or when filling any text in the page.
>
> Maybe the most promising direction I can see is to try and make some
> library (like webkit) render directly into an Emacs buffer (rather than
> X11/Cairo/w32/plaintext/younameit). Still, to make it handle tables
> properly, we may need to extend Emacs's rendering engine to better
> support them (which would be handy in any case for various applications
> like list-buffer which should columns of data).
>
Would it be posible to consolidate one or the other of the window groups
proposals, and tables? That is, a table cell is somewhat like an Emacs
window.
I played a little bit with having firefox print to pdf, and render pdf
to ascii, and view that in emacs, but it didnt look very good. Better
tables would likely help.
> Stefan
>
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-30 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 20:11 Why Emacs should have a good web-browser Fernando
2009-07-08 20:54 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-08 21:55 ` joakim
2009-07-08 22:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-13 22:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-07-08 22:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-08 22:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-08 23:05 ` Davis Herring
2009-07-09 0:05 ` joakim
2009-07-09 12:36 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-09 14:25 ` joakim
2009-07-09 16:01 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-09 17:39 ` joakim
2009-07-09 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-08 20:58 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-09 21:12 ` Paul R
2009-07-11 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-12 11:01 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-13 7:18 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-07-17 15:59 ` Paul R
2009-07-18 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-21 9:18 ` Paul R
2009-07-21 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-21 16:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-21 17:25 ` Thomas Lord
2009-07-22 9:23 ` Paul R
2009-07-21 16:52 ` David Reitter
2009-07-21 20:34 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-21 17:13 ` Thomas Lord
2009-07-21 18:21 ` Adam Wołk
2009-07-21 19:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-21 19:26 ` Adam Wołk
2009-07-21 19:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-21 19:47 ` Adam Wołk
2009-07-21 20:02 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-21 20:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-21 20:37 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-21 20:24 ` Adam Wołk
2009-07-21 21:27 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-21 21:36 ` T.V. Raman
2009-07-21 22:14 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-21 21:48 ` Adam Wołk
2009-07-21 22:24 ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-07-22 10:33 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-07-22 9:12 ` Paul R
2009-07-22 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <fxezoucvx5x8i57cbqUYAxe124vaj_firegpg@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-21 22:09 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-07-21 23:05 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-22 17:40 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-07-22 18:07 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-30 18:22 ` joakim [this message]
2009-09-02 9:58 ` martin rudalics
2009-09-02 12:00 ` joakim
2009-09-12 19:03 ` Deniz Dogan
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