Re: inclusion of emacs-w3m

[Andrey Kotlarski]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Ivan Kanis <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Now that Emacs proper has an HTML parser (via libxml2), an HTML renderer
>>> (via shr.el), and an HTTP library (via url*.el), writing a totally
>>> Emacs-based web browser should be pretty easy for somebody who has some
>>> time to spare.
>>
>> I don't think it's that easy.
>
> Why not?  You just need to add some bookmarking stuff and a cookie
> editor, and you're done.

There is w3, though unmaintained for years.  Until some threading
support comes to Elisp, such packages would suffer.

> Oh, and forms support.  And stuff.  It shouldn't take anybody more than
> a month to implement a full-featured Emacs browser.  (Well.  As
> full-featured as a totally non-JS browser will ever be.)

If the rumours of Guile Elisp nearing working integration with GNU/Emacs
are right and as Guile has support for Javascript too (not to mention
native threads), that could open some doors.


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