[Conkeror] Poll: how important is emacs-style splitting of top-level windows into multiple panes?

[Evans Winner]

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> writes:

    How useful would it be for Conkeror to support
    Emacs-style splitting of top-level windows (frames in
    Emacs terminology) into multiple panes (windows in Emacs
    terminology)?

For what it might be worth, I use Emacs in fullscreen mode
with only one frame, and most of the time I don't split
windows except when some program (like gnus) does it for me.
I just switch buffers to get around, keeping whatever I'm
working on at the moment in distraction-free fullscreen
mode.  I happen to like it that way.  I also use Conkeror,
for the most part in just one frame and fullscreen.  And
then, I use stumpwm.  So the result is my web browser and my
editor and my window manager all have the same model -- one
thing on the screen at a time, and some prefixed keyboard
command to switch around between them.  I know may people
would not like this setup, but just as a ``data point'' I
thought I would mention it.

If people would like split windows in Conkeror, though, why
not? -- assuming it's worth the effort and maintenance
time.

One thing I wonder is, to what extent could such a feature
be useful for the purpose of special-made Javascript add-ons
that people could write for Conkeror -- like they write
add-ons for Emacs that use split windows?  Or would one just
use HTML frames for that?