Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[T.V Raman]

<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
>

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Thanks,

--Raman
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