From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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 10:53:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o987hf82.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87munr7ply.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:19:49 +0100")
Heya,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Ludovic,
>>
>>> Thanks for the patch!
>>
>> Thank you for your review!
>>
>>> I wonder why this hadn’t been done before;
>>> Nicolas, Alex, Pierre, thoughts?
>>
>> There is an older bug with xwidgets support which had problems because
>> it depended on an old version of webkitgtk (I only found it after I sent
>> the patch). Maybe that stopped others from submitting.
>
> 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…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 9:54 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 [this message]
2019-01-23 11:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-23 22:29 ` bug#34128: " Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-24 19:06 ` [bug#34128] " Arne Babenhauserheide
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