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

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden writes:

> Again I want to shamelessly promote my project:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsXembed
>
> I havent worked on it lately, but this thread is starting to make me
> want to prove that its possible to embed a browser.
>
> The thing that actually stopped me from demoing browser embedding,
> rather that video etc, is that I didnt find a browser which supported
> being embedded with xembed. It shouldnt be a big problem, though, to
> modify a gnome based browser to use a xembeddable widget as main
> window.

I haven't had time to look at your code, but if you already got embedded
GTK applications to work, it might be possible to use GtkMozEmbed:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html

The main problem is that their documentation looks pretty sketchy.