Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)

[joakim]

Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> writes:

> T. V. Raman wrote:
>> Persoanlly I'd prefer the embedding to go in the other direction,
>> i.e. embed something like Webkit inside Emacs, ask Webki to
>> render the Web into an emacs buffer, and enable full DOM access
>> from Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> This way security sandboxing can be per whatever webkit does, and
>> emacs which typically runs with more previleges  wouldn't have to
>> worry about code that comes from the network doing unsafe things.
>
> And this approach would appear to have a platform independent nature,
> highly appealing.  I don't know anything about Webkit.  Are you
> talking about adding Webkit to the C level of Emacs, doing an Emacs
> Lisp binding to Webkit (probably running in a separate process or
> mulitple processes ala Chrome) or something else?

It's somewhat possible to do this already. I mailed a patch to
emacs-devel some time ago that lets Emacs embed gtk widgets in a buffer,
like images. (Its very alpha but shows that its possible, at least)

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> -pmr
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Joakim Verona