Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:35:52 -0700
> 
> Awhile ago I started a thread on rethinking the design of 
> xwidgets, there was a lot of good discussion about the future of 
> Emacs' rendering capabilities. It personally motivated me to try 
> to better understand how Emacs' redisplay works and just overall 
> better understand the C core of Emacs. As part of that exercise, I 
> decided to see if I could port the existing xwidgets code into a 
> dynamic module. The only xwidget Emacs currently implements is a 
> webkit widget, so this effort turned into creating a dynamic 
> module for embedding webkit in Emacs. It also happens that I've 
> been wishing that I could never leave Emacs and a general web 
> browser was the last daily app that I begrudgingly used outside of 
> Emacs. Anyways here's the result: 
> https://github.com/akirakyle/emacs-webkit.git

Thanks.

So, IIUC, basically you create a buffer, display it in a window, and
then let GTK draw in the visible portion of that window, is that the
idea?  If so, what happens if some other Lisp inserts some text into
that buffer? does the text overwrite the WebKit display?