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A highly specialized browser for emacs from 2013 is hardly competition against consumer browsers. I don’t think they’re directly comparable either.
by jsf01 6y ago
A highly specialized browser for emacs from 2013 is hardly competition against consumer browsers. I don’t think they’re directly comparable either.
- fmakunbound 6y agoI’m sure grandpa was being facetious
- iamnotarobotman 6y agoI guess eww is for those who are infatuated by their editors, rather than getting things done with it, when the rest of the world just uses Chrome.
- d0mine 6y agoHere's a practical use-case eww: reading technical articles (e.g., grom google search) without a context switch to a different application: a single key chord to start a typing a query (counsel-web-suggest), then choose the desired link , then read it in eww — all without leaving emacs (while using the same commands that work throughout emacs).
- II2II 6y agoOn the other hand, it is nice when the competition brings something completely different to the table. It serves the needs of people who would never have those needs served by consumer oriented browsers. While this may not be competition in the "winner takes all" sense, eww is does have to consider what those consumer browsers are offering in the context of its domain of application. If it doesn't, it will lose those users and it's reason for being.