An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)

[T. V. Raman]

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.


>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> writes:
    Paul> Steve Yegge, always an interesting read, recently
    Paul> opined that two of his "essential" tools are Emacs and
    Paul> Firefox.  And claimed that if one were to subsume the
    Paul> other life would be nearly perfect, in at least one
    Paul> sense.
    Paul> 
    Paul> While there are a few very useful Emacs add-ons that
    Paul> allow you to use emacsclient to edit text in Mozilla
    Paul> based tools (Thunderbird and Firefox come to mind),
    Paul> I've always wondered why someone has not hacked a
    Paul> plugin that support some sort of Emacs url.  For
    Paul> example, "emacs://x.y.z/some/file/or/other.txt" when
    Paul> presented to the browser would fire up a tab on the
    Paul> browser with a full blown Emacs instance
    Paul> "embedded/buried" in it and edit the file other.txt
    Paul> with the full power of Emacs immersed in the browser.
    Paul> Sandbox issues aside, what other issues need to be
    Paul> overcome to create such a browser plugin?
    Paul> 
    Paul> -pmr
    Paul> 

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