> some future Firefox version might perhaps integrate a Python engine For those who never heard about Firefox 1.9, check the following urls. It looks very promising:
1) http://wiki.mozilla.org/Roadmap_Scratchpad#Python_for_XUL Python for XUL Significant potential contributors in both the Python and XUL application development communities have long wanted access to Python's set of libraries and its capabilities as an application development language. So in addition to JavaScript, which is the default web and XUL scripting language, we plan to extend the reach of Gecko and XUL to the Python world. Mark Hammond's work on PyXPCOM and a language-neutral DOM is well under way as of October 2005, and we believe that the glue code and bindings will be slim enough to be part of a default XULRunner or Firefox distribution when the 1.9 cycle is complete. (N.B.: Mozilla does not intend to distribute the C-Python runtime with its applications or frameworks, and application developers who wish to take advantage of these capabilities will need to provide for this dependency in their installers or packaging. Stub or streaming installer capabilities in the Firefox/XULRunner based on Gecko 1.9 will probably help a great deal to ease the extra download for Python-less users.) 2) http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/008865.html Given evolving JS, why Python? Simple: different programming languages, of different ages, have their strengths, and one of the greatest strength of any solid language is its community. We want to support Python as well as JS for XUL scripting in order to engage a large, creative community of hackers that is mostly disjoint from the web-standards-savvy XUL hackers who are already engaged with Mozilla and Firefox. * Stani -- http://pythonide.stani.be http://pythonide.stani.be/manual/html/manual.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
