Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden writes:

>> 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.
>
> This is basically what I'm aiming for with my xwidget patch. The active
> window contains the live component, the other windows contain inactive
> snapshots of the components(currently only grey rectangles in the
> inactive windows).

Is this "snapshot" handled automatically by X (e.g., as an XEmbed
feature), or is it something that would have to be done "by hand",
e.g. by copying one X bitmap buffer into another?  If the latter,
doesn't that mean that clicking on a button in the "copied" application
wouldn't do anything?