Peter Wayner wrote:
>
> I was recently working with my browser and wishing that I could write
> Emacs-like code to operate upon the HTML being displayed. It doesn't
> have to be lisp. It might just be JavaScript. But does anyone know of
> any projects to build a browser that gives the user the ability to
> execute code on the HTML on display?
It would not be at all difficult to write a chrome: sidebar panel which has
access to the DOM and could manipulate it using a scripting language. The
narrowness of the sidebar might be an annoyance, and if so it'd be slightly
more hacking to modify the chrome of the browser itself to do this. The
advantage of the sidebar is that it could be added to a stock
mozilla/netscape6 install.
The scripting language could be Javascript, but could also be Perl or Python
when ActiveState finishes up their linkage (they've done one already, can't
remember which. I suspect Python because I'd remember being more interested
if it were Perl).
-Dan Veditz
