On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Luke Paireepinart <[email protected]>wrote:
> Why is this even a big deal, Java requires you to download a plugin... I > get that it would be cool not to have plugins, but if we as a community > standardize on a plugin then I don't think it's too big of a deal. > > Have you looked into Panda3D? You might be able to access Pyglet through > Panda3D, and there's a browser plugin. It's very nice actually. It also > gives you complete DOM access through Python, and it runs regular CPython. > If we write a pyglet plugin, we have to guarantee sandboxing, which requires we write a custom python interpreter - skulpt already does this. We would also have to make sure the plugin runs on IE8, Firefox and WebKit (at the very least), which is no small task - skulpt does this already too. And then there are the issues of adoption and trust. Pretty much every browser has javascript enabled, but how many people will install unknown 3rd-party browser plugins? -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
