On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Dominic Cooney wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:55 AM, Anton Muhin wrote:
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> > Good day, everyone!
> >
> > I am sorry if it didn't sound clear enough in our original message,
> > but we're not proposing a new language support, but we're proposing a
> > patch which allows others runtimes to run along with JS in the
> > browser.
> >
> > Of course, we're doing this because of our work on Dart, but our
> > intent was to solicit a feedback from the WebKit community if there is
> > any interest in supporting runtimes additional to JS (and not JS +
> > Dart) in the first place.
> As I have already said, we already support multiple bindings being in use at
> the same time.
>
> Those bindings are different because the code that uses them is not activated
> from web pages. Looking at the specific posted patches, those changes seem
> necessary to support activating a different language from a page eg <script>
> tag. So I think while that your specific claim that WebKit supports multiple
> bindings at the same time is true, it misses the point.
No I was getting sick of the continual claim that this was about supporting
multiple VMs/bindings, rather than adding proprietary extensions to webkit
>
> Continuing to claim that is your goal is not helpful. Your goal is to allow
> additional non-standard languages to be provided by webcontent. This is an
> academic exercise as it doesn't match webkit's goal of being a standards
> compliant engine,
>
> Is that WebKit’s goal?
Um, yes. From http://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html (I'm fairly sure this
has already been quoted in an earlier email but just to bring it back in
context):
Goals
Web Content Engine
The project's primary focus is content deployed on the World Wide Web, using
standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM.
--Oliver
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