Re: Running org-mode (and emacs) inside the Web browser ?

[Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr>]

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2017-10-27 17:49 GMT+02:00 Olivier Berger <
olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>:

> Hi.
>
> I've had this crazy idea to try and "port" emacs to the Web browser
> (using some tools like [[https://browsix.org/][browsix]]), for the
> purpose of running org-mode inside a browser tab.
>
> Anyone having had the same idea yet ?
>

Definitely, except I didn't even try to take action :)


> Interestingly, porting a C program to browsix currently seem to rely on
> emscripten and LLVM... which might not be the best toolchain for
> building Gnu Emacs... but trolls aside, I'd be curious of the
> feasability.
>
> I'm not exactly sure why that would be worth doing... but I can imagine
> running that Emacs Web browser port over some kind of versioned file
> system, and Emacs conf files (org + tangling, of course), so that you
> have "your" org-mode at hand from anywhere using a URL and a browser
> tab... of course, using a keyboard for browsing that tab would be better
> than a touch screen, re keyboard shortcuts.
>

I don't think that the approach to port emacs to run into the browser would
be the
one offering the best reward. Once you manage to fix all the difficult
point, you will
probably get something unbearably slow.

I think the best reward would be to build a ShareEmacs in the same vein as
ShareLaTeX
(merged with Overleaf now).
The big step would be to run emacs on a server and render emacs in the
browser.
Then to allow several users to edit concurrently the same org file.

My 0.02€ :-)

Fabrice

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