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

[Arthur Miller]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 06:25:10AM +0100, Arthur Miller wrote:
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
>> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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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
Or to render text programmatically on top of video.