Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[joakim]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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
>
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Joakim Verona