But you said in another comment here that you are an elisp developer... of course you are going to think it's nicer. I'm not married to the javascript idea, I

But you said in another comment here that you are an elisp developer... of course you are going to think it's nicer. I'm not married to the javascript idea, I just suggested that because it's already used for a ton of other things in the browser, so it'd make sense to make the browser-as-editor extensible in javascript. If we really want to make it from the ground up, it'd be nice if we could replace javascript with something like Scheme[1] (or Arc ;) as the de-facto client-side scripting-language in the browser. My issue with doing it in elisp is that it's yet another special purpose language to use, and the web already requires three or four of them to get anything done as it is. I'm not scared of learning it, but if I am going to dream of pie-in-the-sky, I might as well dream of a world where one language gets things done on the web. [1] I would suggest Lisp here, but honestly I got started with Scheme, and for some reason (purely aesthetic), CL just seems so ugly to me.