Sorry to resurrect a slightly older topic, but I want to clarify some
points about how the browser DOM and the script language interact.
Paul Rubin wrote:
Huh? The language itself has to provide the sandbox.
Remember that scripts have to be able to see
certain DOM elements but not others, and
Paul Rubin wrote:
Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, one might suggest that it's the task of the browser,
and not of the scripting language, to provide a safe sandbox
where scripts can mess around and without causing havoc on
your computer. Such a system in the browser could be
Greg Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
If the DOM objects are implemented as built-in Python
types, there shouldn't be any difficulty with that.
Python objects have complete control over which attributes
can be read or written by Python code.
That,
Rune Strand wrote:
What would it take to create a Firefox extension that enables Python as
a script language in the browser - just like Javascript? Is it at all
possible? Are the hundred good reasons not to bother?
There are certainly security issues. A simple implementation
that started a
Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, one might suggest that it's the task of the browser,
and not of the scripting language, to provide a safe sandbox
where scripts can mess around and without causing havoc on
your computer. Such a system in the browser could be used to
grant
Paul Rubin wrote:
Huh? The language itself has to provide the sandbox.
Remember that scripts have to be able to see
certain DOM elements but not others, and some of them have to be
read-only, etc.
If the DOM objects are implemented as built-in Python
types, there shouldn't be any
Greg Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the DOM objects are implemented as built-in Python
types, there shouldn't be any difficulty with that.
Python objects have complete control over which attributes
can be read or written by Python code.
No, they don't. See the sorry history of the
What would it take to create a Firefox extension that enables Python as
a script language in the browser - just like Javascript? Is it at all
possible? Are the hundred good reasons not to bother?
I once made an application that used MozPython[1]. It was fun and very
fast compared to the
