xwidget-webkit no longer work with latest webkit2gtk library, would you consider maintaining this project again?

[BooAA]

Hi, I saw the README recommend the built-in xwidget-webkit, but since webkitgtk 2.41 offscreen rendering no longer work, which make xwidget-webkit crash in Emacs (discussion in bug#66068: 30.0.50; xwidget-webkit-browse-url makes Emacs abort). Po Lu has recommended shipping to WPE but looks like the emacs-dev has no interest to it. Would you consider pick up this emacs-webkit project again as xwidget-webkit is very likely to be broken/deprecated in the future? (on debian unstable,xwidget-webkit have already been broken for several months and I don't think the webkit-dev is going to fix this in the future).

Thanks.

[akirakyle]

Thanks for letting me know about that issue. I sort of figured this day would come sooner or later back when I was writing emacs-webkit which is why I decided not to implement the offscreen rendering hack to have multiple webkit views in emacs. I think the recommendation to switch to WPE dramatically underestimates just how difficult that would be since, in my understanding, WPE leaves a lot more up to the application to implement and while it's probably technically capable of allowing emacs to have multiple webkit views, I wouldn't guess this is a main use case supported by WPE.

Unfortunately it's still the case that I don't have either the time or interest to start working on emacs-webkit again. Although I should say I am still very much interested in figuring out ways to integrate emacs and a web browser. I do continue to spend some free time here and there hacking on various ideas I have about how to accomplish that in less fundamentally hacky ways than emacs-webkit. So perhaps one day I might have something worthwhile as a successor to emacs-webkit.