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+# The browser in a buffer
+Michael Bauer (he/him) - Pronunciation: [ˈmɪçaːʔeːl] [ˈbaʊ̯ɐ], IRC: permcu, <http://perma-curious.eu>, <mailto:perma-curious@posteo.de>
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+In this talk I am going to show a thing I made to integrate my second
+most used program with my first most used one.
+
+Poltys - a periodic orb weaver - is an interactive interface to the
+current browser session that lives inside an Emacs buffer. It forms a
+[narrow
+waist](https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html) between the browser & Emacs; bringing Emacs text editing
+to tab management. This makes it one more thing ready to be used in
+your favorite Emacs workflow.
+
+During the talk I will explain what poltys does, how it can be used in
+different workflows and how it is made. The first half of the talk is
+show and tell, while the second half goes into the technical details.
+
+This talk is for you if you like neat text interfaces,
+already live mostly inside Emacs,
+or just want to have a look at what Emacs - the universal shell - is
+among many other things capable of.
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Michael Bauer is from Germany. He does most of his computing from
+inside Emacs and works currently on an evolved lisp dialect.
+# Discussion
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+- Q: Have you seen the Nyxt browser. It is the Emacs of Web browsers
+ and would probably be easier to work with as it matches a lot closer
+ to Emacs. I think you can tag browser tabs for example. 
+ - A: Yes, but the author did not look into it yet. It could
+ probably be made to work as well.
+- Q:Nice ideas.  Needs a better name though to attract people to it. 
+ What about browsys or webnote?
+ - A: Ideas for better naming are appreciated, but the suggestions
+ did not convince the author.
+- Q: Can you use browser extensions with this, example ublock
+ sponserblock darkreader These are needed for browsing others peoples
+ web sites
+ - A: The presented software is a browser extension (plus elisp
+ code to interact with it), so it works in addition to other
+ already installed browser extensions.
+- Q: Are there any inherent security issues with this (bi-directional
+ synchronization sounds like a possible issue) ? How are they solved?
+ Can a malicious website impact Emacs or the host system?
+ - A: The overall surface is limited, so there should be little a
+ website can do. One thing that helped with this is the web
+ extensions API being fine-grained in terms of things that can be
+ done with the browser.
+- Q:When do you think you'll make a first release?  I hate needing
+ browser extensions and would love to control my tabs in Emacs.
+ - A: The code is there, may be, in the next week, the presenter
+ would upload the code out there.
+ - I am not the presenter, but you can configure emacs to open
+ windows instead of tabs and control them with EXWMNeed
+ cross-window system support (GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows).
+- Q: What happened to the Sway compositor you showed last year? I am
+ an EXWM user and need a Sway equivalent!!! Please !!! Is the code
+ available?
+ - A: <http://perma-curious.eu/repo-ewx/>
+- Q: Does the browser have to be firefox for syncing or is there a
+ choice there?
+ - A: It should be possible to use this with other browsers due to
+ the web extensions API working for both Chromium and Firefox,
+ but it needs testing and Chromium may switch to an incompatible
+ API in the future.
+
+## Notes
+
+- It is too small, please zoom up *4, for all the impaired, or normal
+ good old user of emacs...
+- The highlighting copying could be done with xclip or wl-clipboard if
+ you don't mind a dependency outside Emacs.
+
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