Carlo Petriccione wrote:
>But I need simply to know why a common example like inthtml.r,
>for the script embedding, doesn't work with IE 5.0 (it causes
>no one effect absolutely and no one message). Really is it due
>to my browser IE 5.0, not supporting rebol in script-tag?
IE only supports languages in the script tag that provide an
ActiveScripting interface, and are installed on the client
computer. REBOL doesn't support this interface. Even if it did
there isn't any easy way to specify automatic download of an
ActiveScripting engine, so most computers wouldn't support it.
Keeping in mind how difficult it is to make an engine secure
enough to trust executing other people's code, this is probably
a good thing.
The only ActiveScripting languages that are widely supported
are JScript and VBScript, provided by engines bundled in IE.
Most people even avoid VBScript in web client code because it
is IE specific.
ActiveScripting languages are much more useful in environments
where you can control what gets installed, such as server-side
scripting with ASP, extension languages and computer automation
with the Windows Scripting Host.
This is the kind of OS-specific feature that will likely be in
REBOL/Command rather than /Core. Wait and see.
>Or is my rebol setup incomplete?
Well, I think _my_ setup is incomplete without /Command :)
Brian Hawley
