Re: Removing the `window-id' frame parameter on non-Core Input platforms

[Po Lu]

Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com> writes:

> Except the user experience is different.

You don't have to display the same widget in two windows, if that's what
you're concerned about.

> Frankly I find it not very helpful to have the same exact view into a
> buffer on two windows which is what the osr technique ends up
> accomplishing. The fact that scrolling in one xwidget webkit buffer
> scrolls in every other I find to be distracting. Also the case of
> unequal sized windows displaying the same webkit buffer is still not
> handled correctly as the larger buffer will have it's view clipped to
> the size of the smaller in focus buffer.

It correctly fits the model of Emacs display, which is the main concern.

> Another feature not currently "just working" transparently is the
> webkit inspector. It currently seg faults emacs when the webkit buffer
> is killed and is impossible to interact with before then.

On X11?  It works for me, and if it doesn't, that is a bug.  Please send
a backtrace along with the WebKitGTK version you are using.

Thanks.