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Re: emacspeak and w3



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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Tim> I installed lois and chromevox from the chrome
    Tim> store. Running version Chromium 18.0.1025.168 from
    Tim> ubuntu 12.04, but no luck getting it working yet. Not
    Tim> sue how to verify nacl support - looks like it was added
    Tim> in v14 and it is listed/mentioned in the copyright file
See Jason's note. Not all debian/ubuntu builds include nacl. Get
package google-chrome -- rather than chromium.

    Tim> of this version, but no luck yet.
    Tim> 
    Tim> On another note, seem to have run itno a bug with emacs
    Tim> 24 url, so now I cannot follow links in w3. Seems to be

this is transient. A couple of weeks ago, they broke all google
search result links -- see the advice in emacspeak-w3.el 
that "canonicalizes google result urls when passed to the url
library.  I  filed a bug and I suspect they broke something else
in fixing that. Make sure you're running emacspeak from svn and
that you have the latest snapshot as well.

    Tim> losing the 'host' value somewhere, so throws a stingp
    Tim> nil error. Was working with a version of emacs from
    Tim> earlier in the week, so probably just a temporary hitch.


    Tim> 
    Tim> Was working through your mm-customize.el file and
    Tim> noticed something which I found a bit confusing. In it,
    Tim> you have some tests under the mm--inline-media-tests
that is old cruft, and the or is a no-op -- consequence of cut
    Tim> and paste.

    Tim> setting of the form
    Tim> 
    Tim> (lambda (&rest ignore) (or mm-text-html-renderer
    Tim> mm-text-html-renderer))
    Tim> 
    Tim> I don't understand the or statement. It has the same
    Tim> varible for both paths - seems like a weird thing to do,
    Tim> unless there is something I'm missing? I would have
    Tim> thought just returning the var would achieve the same
    Tim> result? Just curious really as I always like to try and
    Tim> understand bits of elisp I come across.
    Tim> 
    Tim> 
    Tim> Tim
    Tim> 
    Tim> 
    Tim> On 12 May 2012 13:05, T. V. Raman
    Tim> <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >> nds good.
    >> 
    >> My own choice for general purpose browsing is Chrome with
    >> chromevox loaded -- give that a shot.
    >> 
    >> You'll need to:
    >> 
    >> 1. Install ChromeVox and the Lois voice from the Chrome
    >> Web Store; 2. Ensure that your Chrome has nacl support.
    >> 
    >> Eventually I'd like to use Chrome's remote debugging API
    >>  to connect emacs to Chrome --- and do the following:
    >> 
    >> Use ChromeVox to work with the general purpose Web.
    >> 
    >> 2. Use the remote port connection between Emacs and Chrome
    >> to get Web content into Emacs so you can further
    >> manipulate it as desired. All of this is a fair bit of
    >> work.
    >> 
    >>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >>    Tim> I could be way off the mark, but my thoughts were
    >> that    Tim> the w3 rendering code could be a worthwhile
    >> reference    Tim> wrt rendering, but most of it would need
    >> to be    Tim> updated/modified - same with the css
    >> module. I would    Tim> like to see something with very
    >> separate and independent    Tim> modules that each have a
    >> well defined interface that are    Tim> all hooked up
    >> together to provide a usable browser AND    Tim> provide a
    >> useful set of utilities that could be used for    Tim>
    >> other processin and provide an interesting tool set for  
    >>  Tim> experimentation and personal customization.    Tim>
    >>    Tim> It is probably this last part, experimentation and
    >>    Tim> customization for specific tasks I find most
    >> appealing    Tim> about w3. For general browsing, I am
    >> finding it    Tim> increasingly necessary to use something
    >> like firefox or    Tim> chromium. However, as the epub
    >> stuff you did shows,    Tim> there is still a lot of
    >> potential for a reliable text    Tim> browser with a very
    >> close integration with emacs that    Tim> will allow us to
    >> manipulate components with custom    Tim> elisp.    Tim>  
    >>  Tim> Tim    Tim>    Tim> On 11 May 2012 13:23,
    >> T. V. Raman    Tim> <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    >>
    >> shr doesn't use any of the W3 rendering code.    >>    >>
    >> Unfortunately the parse structure that the W3 parser    >>
    >> builds is not exactly the same shape as that returned by  
    >>  >> libxml -- so you'd have to do a bit of work before the
    >> W3    >> renderer can eat the libxml parse tree. But it
    >> shouldn't    >> be a huge amount of work.    >>    >>>>>>>
    >> "Tim" == Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:    >>  
    >>  Tim> Now that is very interesting. Will certainly be  
    >>  >> checking    Tim> out shr - this is exactly along the
    >> same    >> lines as I was    Tim> thinking wrt moving w3
    >> forward and    >> helping to ensure it    Tim> doesn't end
    >> up dying of bit    >> rot.    Tim>    Tim> Since emacs
    >> added the interface to    >> libxml, I've been    Tim>
    >> wondering about how much work    >> this would take, so
    >> I'm    Tim> quite excited to find that    >> thiswork has
    >> already started.    Tim>    Tim> Tim    Tim>    >> Tim> On
    >> 11 May 2012 03:47, T.V. Raman    >>
    >> <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx>    Tim> wrote:    >> From an    >>
    >> Emacspeak perspective, W3 will always trump W3M    >>  in
    >>    >> terms of features --- w3m in emacs is nice, but the
    >>    >>    >> integration leaves a lot to be desired -- in
    >> that emacs/w3    >> >> only gets its hands on the content
    >> after w3m itself has    >> >> done the bulk of the
    >> rendering.    >>    >> In the best    >> of all worlds,
    >> the parsing and dom    >> construction    >> would happen
    >> in the native layer --- and the    >>    >> rendering
    >> happen in the lisp layer.  Module shr is a    >>    >>
    >> beginning to that end --- in that it uses libxml to do the
    >>    >> >> parsing --    >>    >> On 5/9/12, Robert
    >> D. Crawford    >> <robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    >>> "Tim
    >> Cross"    >> <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:    >>>    >>>>
    >> The really nice    >> thing is that since machines have
    >> gotten    >>>> so much    >> faster in the past few years,
    >> the slower    >>>> rendering    >> time of w3 compared to
    >> w3m is pretty much    >>>>    >> unnoticeable except on
    >> really large html files.    >>>    >> >>> I've not used
    >> w3m in such a long time.  I've preferred    >> w3    >>>
    >> since I first used it.  Glad to hear I'm not    >> really
    >>    >>> missing out on speed.    >>>    >>>> thanks    >>
    >> again, you have made my day!    >>>    >>> You are quite  
    >>  >> welcome.  Glad to have been of assistance.    >>>  
    >>  >>>    >> rdc    >>> --    >>> Robert D. Crawford    >>>
    >>    >> robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx    >>>    >>>    >>
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    >>  Tim>    Tim>    >> Tim> -- Tim Cross    >>    >> --    >>
    >> Best Regards, --raman    >>    >> --    >> Best Regards,
    >> --raman    Tim>    Tim>    Tim>    Tim> -- Tim Cross
    >> 
    >> --
    >> Best Regards, --raman
    Tim> 
    Tim> 
    Tim> 
    Tim> -- Tim Cross

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Best Regards,
--raman

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