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

[Arthur Miller]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > libmpv is a library to play video files like .mp4.  There's no
>   > Javascript involved.
>
> Ok on that score.  But why is it desirable to do this in Emacs rather
> than run vlc?  It is a big nonmodularity, and that is a big drawback.
Why is it desirable to view jpegs in Emacs rather then run
insert-your-favourite-image-viewer-here? Or why is it desirable to
render html in emacs rather then run Firefox?

For me: less processes, less switching between applications, nice to
have things in Emacs buffers.