Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[David Reitter]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It might be possible to use one of those engines as Emacs's rendering
> engine, indeed.  To me, it wouldn't seem like an good solution to the
> problem at hand because I don't think it would allow me to control the
> web-browser from Emacs (e.g., how would I access from Elisp the  
> content
> of pages generated from HTML?).

JS / DOM has worked this out quite well, and the implementations  
provide a security model.

>  So it'd be more like embedding Emacs
> inside a normal browser.  It's not a bad idea, but I don't think it'll
> provide as many benefits from Emacs's point of view.

It would be fantastic to be able to use Emacs directly inside text  
areas of Firefox.  There's a simple plugin that lets users edit text  
from text boxes in an external text editor, but that's nowhere nearly  
as nice as having a little Emacs window displayed right in place of  
the text box.

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