Re: Emacs in the Cloud

[joakim]

Julien Danjou <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 25 2011, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>
>> What about adding a javascript port to emacs?
>
> Clearly having an output engine targeting HTML5 would be great. That
> might be possible considering GTK+ is now evolving to provide such a
> backend.
>
> However, until Emacs stops trying to support display systems from the
> 70's, it's not something we could plan serenely.

Well, as someone working on Emacs + Webkit integration I'd like to add
that I feel the current Emacs display engine has many strengths newer
systems shouldn't remove.

I use a graphical gtk based emacs everyday, and I also use terminal
based Emacs sessions every day. Hardened remote servers will continue to
actively not have any X installations for years to come. Terminal Emacs
sessions clearly makes life more liveable in those cases.

-- 
Joakim Verona