Re: [PATCH] Add user content APIs for WebKit Xwidgets

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:

> The user script API makes it possible to reliable and predictable injecting
> script into a Webkit Xwidget, which is useful for customizing the WebView
> behavior.

That sounds very useful.

> The script message handler API makes it possible to trigger event in emacs
> from JavaScript, and can be used to implement procedure calling from
> js to elisp. Currently only the other way around is possible.

That sounds really scary, though.  What are the security implications
here?

Anyway, this is a larger large patch, so to apply it to Emacs, we'd have
to have a copyright assignment to the FSF.  Would you be willing to sign
such paperwork?

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