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

[tomas]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 06:25:10AM +0100, Arthur Miller wrote:
> 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.

Imagine being able to say "org-store-link" at a specific frame in
a video. Or at specific (x, y) coordinates in a frame in said
video.

Just imagine :-)

Cheers
 - t

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