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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Wed 02 Dec 2020 at 17:37, Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com> wrote:
> Do you wish to never launch display server such as X or wayland but
> still have some of Emacs graphics support on the linux framebuffer?

yes

> It seems like unless you're going to teach Emacs to entirely draw
> itself to the framebuffer, there will always be glitches like the
> cursor messing up images since TUI Emacs won't be aware of what pixels
> of the framebuffer have been drawn over independently of the linux VT
> displaying lines of Emacs' characters.

The cursor could be turned off.

Are there other glitches which cannot be solved?

Try

   $ w3m https://gnu.org

You'll see graphics in text only web browser.  It works even with cursor
on.