Birchard Hayes wrote: > The offending line is "using System;" which creates several problems. > The first is that this code will only run on Windows and only in > Internet Explorer. That's the innovation. CLR bytecodes are interpreted on a JavaScript interpreter. For example, the demos they have on the Volta site work (http://labs.live.com/volta/samples.aspx) just fine in Firefox, if slowly.
Indeed `System' is native to Windows, and that fact could be detected such that CLI bytecodes could be directed to the native engine on a Windows or Mono-based system for fast execution. Further, Firefox will also soon have a high performance JIT for JavaScript. > Instead of using Microsoft's Volta, I would suggest using tools from > Google Code, http://code.google.com , Google does have GWT, but the difference is that they have a very simple toolkit, not all of Java EE, which would be the analogue to Volta/.NET. Also Google lacks the very substantial IP in compiler technology that Microsoft has. > or Yahoo's developer kits, http://developer.yahoo.com You mean Microsoft's. ;-) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
