2006SEP282214

Python, XPCOM & Firefox?

After reading, ' Blogger's Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp' [0] I found a bug at ASPN searching for Python, XPCOM, Firefox.

 

'... JS, unlike Python, was a rushed little hack for Netscape 2 that was then frozen prematurely during the browser wars, and evolved significantly only once by ECMA. So its early flaws were never fixed, and worse, no virtuous cycle of fine-grained community feedback in the form of standard library code construction, and revision of the foundational parts of the language to better support the standard library and its common use-cases, ever occurred. ...' [1]

 

One day Python will talk to Firefox using XPCOM and you can use Python with XUL. Mark Hammond is working on it. Others recognise an alternative is required. But I'll believe it when I see it work with whitespace.

 

 

Reference

[0] steve-yegge.blogspot.com, ' Blogger's Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp'

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-3-dreamin...

[Accessed Thursday, 28 September 2006]

 

[1] Weblogs.mozillazine/roadmap, 'February 19, 2006

Python and JavaScript, Brendan's Roadmap Updates'

weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/02/js_and_p...

[Accessed Thursday, 28 September 2006]

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