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Emacs had (or still has) a web browser. The problem is that companies (starting with Netscape) took control of browser development, adding tons of both useful a
by coliveira 4y ago
Emacs had (or still has) a web browser. The problem is that companies (starting with Netscape) took control of browser development, adding tons of both useful and useless features, with the goal of controlling the development of the web. Emacs and other projects cannot compete with that.
- pama 4y agoI agree. I see a minor glimpse of hope with people using mastodon for communication, and basic clients running within Emacs; perhaps eventually one could also have a personal server running (or at least controlled) within Emacs. Once the extensions are in Lisp, new types of opportunities open up. Maybe one day blog posts could be using org mode natively and allow for local/interactive elisp or other babel-language execution. Maybe an extension of crdt within Emacs is all that’s needed for interactive shared documents by multiple users. The web could be interesting in new ways, just like the multiplayer online games of the eighties.