Re: XWidget/WebKit: Getting Web Content From Webkit To Emacs

[Vasilij Schneidermann]

> Sadly there wasn't a good function for returning values from webkit in
> their api when I wrote the code. I haven't checked if that situation has
> changed recently. The return value is pased by setting the
> document.title. Ahem... I'm not sure about the limits of this mechanism,
> it has been working for the things I've done anyway.


This is still the case for webkit1gtk, webkit2gtk however introduced
the functions webkit_web_view_run_javascript and
webkit_web_view_run_javascript_finish which allow you to evaluate
JavaScript asynchronously and retrieve the return value once it's
done.