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diff --git a/2023/talks/web.md b/2023/talks/web.md index 0d6e3d75..1d75fdf5 100644 --- a/2023/talks/web.md +++ b/2023/talks/web.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta title="Emacs saves the Web"]] +[[!meta title="Emacs saves the Web (maybe)"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Yuchen Pei"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/web-nav)" raw="yes"]] @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <!-- You can manually edit this file to update the abstract, add links, etc. ---> -# Emacs saves the Web +# Emacs saves the Web (maybe) Yuchen Pei (he/him, pronounced: "eww-churn pay"), IRC: dragestil, <mailto:id@ypei.org>, <https://ypei.org>, mastodon: dragestil@hostux.social [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/web-before)" raw="yes"]] @@ -16,17 +16,12 @@ customisability and the ability to effortlessly convert users to hackers. On the other hand, today many of the sticky issues with proprietary software proliferation stems from the web, including the Javascript trap[1] on the client side and the SaaSS trap[2] on the -server side. So enters the topic of this talk. I will briefly talk -about these issues and existing solutions, followed by ideas and -demonstrations on how Emacs can fix user freedom on the web, including -(from realistic to dreamy): emacs clients for specific websites and -services i.e. replacing read-only javascript forced on your browser -with hackable free elisp packages, emacs-based browsers aka universal -frontends and elisp version of users-cripts / greasemonkey / haketilo, -write-once-run-everywhere elisp programs (e.g. the emacs web server -and (nonexistent?) emacs mobile app UI framework), and remote emacs -servers that can be shared by a group of hackers running server -programs written in elisp, thus eliminating the SaaSS trap. +server side. So enters the topic of this talk. I will briefly talk about +these issues and existing non-emacs solutions, followed by ideas and +demonstrations on how Emacs can fix user freedom on the web, including: +emacs clients for specific websites and services, emacs-based browsers +aka universal frontends, transformer of emacs packages to web apps and +firefox browser extensions, and more. - [1] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html> - [2] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html> @@ -40,7 +35,7 @@ claim to be the only free software advocate in Australia, in the hope that someone will correct him and point him to fellow comrades fighting for user freedom in Oz. -- [3] https://g.ypei.me +- [3] <https://g.ypei.me> [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/web-after)" raw="yes"]] |