[Zope] [off topic] question?

[Martijn Pieters]

At 12:43 24-4-99 , Shaolin wrote:
>Applets are not what you want really (too much 1997-something).
>
>It would probably be better with a plugin doing 
>python script-handling: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Python">.
>
>And making the DOM accessable from Python-scripts.
>
>It accualy be rather exciting because the object origentation 
>in JavaScript (EMCA) is not at Pythons level.

A bit late, I know...

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Python"> Is already possible, within the ActiveScripting
framework. 

This framework separates the DOM from the scripting language, and is used
in MS IIS, MS Internet Explorer, MS Windows Scripting Host, and maybe some
third-party products. Microsoft's JScript and VBScript both run within this
framework.

An ActiveScript implementation of Python has been around since 1997, as
part of the PythonCOM package (http://www.python.org/windows/win32com/).

Unfortunatly, it's not crossplatform. It's solidly stuck on the Wintel
platform.

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