Re: embedding Mozilla in GNU Emacs via GTK?

[Jan D.]

> > From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:15:27 -0500
> >
> > I am curious if there's a chance GNU Emacs will ever have an embedded
> > web browser object through the Mozilla GTK support:
>
> IIRC, this has come up before.  If memory serves, the main problem was
> how to reconcile the Mozilla/GTK display functions with Emacs display
> engine principle of operation.  Perhaps the situation has changed
> since then, though.

I don't know the details about the display engine.  I imagine that is 
no problem as long as the GTK event loop is run properly.  Mozilla 
should handle its redisplay by function callbacks for expose events and 
the like.  But as long Emacs runs the X (or rather GTK) event handling 
in a signal handler, this will be hard to make work correctly, because 
the mozilla code may do just about anything.  It is possible it will 
work for most cases though.

        Jan D.