Steve Howell wrote: > --- "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would not completely give up on the idea of Python > itself running in the browser, although obviously > there have been lots of false starts. > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_04_28.shtml#e702
interesting. Very interesting but I suspect the message is "don't hold your breath but don't give up hope." > Regarding using Python to generate JavaScript, I just > get nervous any time code generation happens. While > JS is not a perfect language, it's tolerably close to > Python in lots of cases, and if you have a Python back > end, you can feed it JSON very easily from Python. personally, that doesn't bother me. I lived with Cfront to the point where I understood the output and was filing bug reports on it. > > To the extent that JS code incorporates lots of > cross-platform idiosyncracies, I still think the > strategy there is to dig into JS and learn how to > encapsulate those within JS itself. pick a toolkit and live with it. Most of the reason why I'm looking for a JavaScript backend is because well, my hands and speech recognition don't work well with JavaScript. So, if I could just generate JavaScript from Python I would be happy. I especially would be happy if I could create Thunderbird or Firefox extensions using Python because the current model is so incomprehensibly documented. What I need to do would take maybe a day if you're distracted but to spend some number of weeks learning how to accomplish that day's effort is a pretty low return on investment. I don't see a career in plug-in writing is something worth chasing. Anyway, that's my opinion and I'm living with the consequences. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
