roadmap looks good

Posted Jun 10, 2005 18:47 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: roadmap looks good by b7j0c
Parent article: Brendan Eich Outlines Roadmap Plans for 1.8 and Beyond (MozillaZine)

Internet Explorer has long been able to use languages other than Javascript to manipulate the browser DOM. See Windows Scripting Host. I've previously used Javascript, VBScript, Perl, and even Tcl inside Internet Explorer.

Javascript normally gets the job done, and it has a good terse representation, but I agree that scoping and some other important features are unclear. Perl-in-Moz would be a lot of fun, and Python-in-Moz would draw plenty of adherents as well.

roadmap looks good

Posted Jun 13, 2005 11:25 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

Given that Python can't be reliably sandboxed in-process, you probably won't ever see it available for use embedded in web pages (that is, unless an alternative implementation like Jython is used).