Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> That's excellent news.
>
> On a technical note, I think it makes more sense to associate embedded
> applications with Emacs windows, rather than buffers as you're
> apparently trying to do.  Otherwise, we run into the problem of handling
> the situation where the same buffer is displayed in more than one
> window.  Basically, we should have a way to say "the contents of this
> window are handled by an embedded program, rather than by Emacs".  WDYT?
>   
It's not that difficult to handle, you just need to take snapshots of 
the application's display now and then.  The active window contains the 
real application, and any other windows can contain a snapshot of the 
display of that program.