From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>, 34128@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34128] [PATCH] add emacs built with xwidgets-support
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:41:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fttj7g8t.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o987hf82.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> I performed the migration of the Emacs xwidgets feature from the old to
>> the newer webkitgtk API, but that’s when I noticed that xwidgets are
>> hardly usable in its current state. I certainly wouldn’t use it as a
>> browser, for example, because there is virtually no integration with the
>> rest of Emacs.
>>
>> It works fine for sending JavaScript snippets to the widgets and have it
>> respond, but it’s not very well integrated into Emacs. Disabling
>> JavaScript has the effect of disabling *all* JavaScript, which makes
>> scrolling impossible (as it is implemented by sending JavaScript to the
>> widget).
>>
>> Turning it into a usable browser would require more fundamental changes,
>> and that’s when I stopped working on patches.
>
> Oh, I was more optimistic; thanks for explaining.
>
> Knowing this, what do you think of adding it as a package? We also have
> ‘guile-emacs’ anyway…
I’m not at all opposed to adding it as a package. After all, it is a
potentially useful feature and providing a package makes it more likely
that people get to play with it and maybe extend the features by
contributing elisp and JavaScript.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-18 22:29 [bug#34128] [PATCH] add emacs built with xwidgets-support Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-01-22 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-22 23:10 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-01-23 8:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-23 9:37 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-01-23 9:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-23 22:29 ` bug#34128: " Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-24 19:06 ` [bug#34128] " Arne Babenhauserheide
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