Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Chong Yidong<address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> I would like to point to:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXembed
>>
>> I have some screenshots there of my xembed patch for emacs that allows
>> xembedding for instance a video player(mplayer in the screenshot) in emacs.
>>
>> I am currently making a small xembeddable wrapper on webkit that I will
>> make some screenshots with to show Emacs embedding a browser.
>
> 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?

You perhaps still need some buffer elements otherwise the embedded
application would go away when you closed a window. That could maybe
be ok, but it is not the way use to behave in Emacs.

Other than that I think it is a good suggestion.