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Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
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joakim |
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Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) |
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:44:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> writes:
> T. V. Raman wrote:
>> Persoanlly I'd prefer the embedding to go in the other direction,
>> i.e. embed something like Webkit inside Emacs, ask Webki to
>> render the Web into an emacs buffer, and enable full DOM access
>> from Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> This way security sandboxing can be per whatever webkit does, and
>> emacs which typically runs with more previleges wouldn't have to
>> worry about code that comes from the network doing unsafe things.
>
> And this approach would appear to have a platform independent nature,
> highly appealing. I don't know anything about Webkit. Are you
> talking about adding Webkit to the C level of Emacs, doing an Emacs
> Lisp binding to Webkit (probably running in a separate process or
> mulitple processes ala Chrome) or something else?
It's somewhat possible to do this already. I mailed a patch to
emacs-devel some time ago that lets Emacs embed gtk widgets in a buffer,
like images. (Its very alpha but shows that its possible, at least)
>
> -pmr
>
>
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Joakim Verona
- An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/04
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/09/04
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), David House, 2008/09/04
- An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), T. V. Raman, 2008/09/04
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?),
joakim <=
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Phil Jackson, 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), joakim, 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Antoine Levitt, 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/06
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Antoine Levitt, 2008/09/06
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/06
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), David Hansen, 2008/09/06
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/06
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), David Hansen, 2008/09/06