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Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was R
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T.V Raman |
Subject: |
Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets) |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:43:50 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
:-) Good point. See how something as simple as a Haskell API Search tool has
tangled itself up in Js land (hoogle)> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 08:50:24AM
+0100, Arthur Miller wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> libmpv is just a library to play media files, has nothing to do with
>> javascript. You can check yourself:
>
> Until some idiot embeds javascript into some video format spec
> and said spec becomes indispensable because That New Platform,
> say, Squitch, makes it mandatory (and cheaper videocams follow
> that lead, or something).
>
> Then either libmpv follows or we users begin to whine and moan.
>
> You laugh? See how PDF embedded javascript.
>
> Yes, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time watching
> with a mixture of fascination and horror how this arena around
> freedom has changed radically the last 20 years.
>
> Not long ago the "enemy" was secret sauce and closed interfaces.
> These days it's more like cripplingly complex systems and user
> convenience.
>
> Cheers
> - t
>
--
Thanks,
--Raman
?7?4 Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 ?0?8
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), (continued)
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Arthur Miller, 2020/11/24
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), tomas, 2020/11/24
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Arthur Miller, 2020/11/24
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Richard Stallman, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), tomas, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Arthur Miller, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Eric S Fraga, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets),
T.V Raman <=
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Richard Stallman, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), tomas, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/24
Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Akira Kyle, 2020/11/23
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/24
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Akira Kyle, 2020/11/24
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/25
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Akira Kyle, 2020/11/27
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/28
- Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets), Arthur Miller, 2020/11/28