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ruby-talk
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trans. wrote:

A better course of action (IMHO) is to hack Foxfire to use Ruby in
place of Javascript --I have yet to understand why bowsers aren't
multi-language scriptable like The GIMP.

Well actually, there is at least one browser that is multi-language scriptable. Internet Explorer. And I believe that it acts as a general host for Microsoft Active Scripting, so ActiveScriptRuby should be usable there.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlto/9251/ruby/

Then you could use Ruby on
both ends. (And would help put some fire under other browsers to do the
same :wink:

Can anyone give a reasonably brief summary of the technical issues in allowing client-side Ruby scripting in Firefox?

James

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Most of the interface runs on Javascript - so it wouldn't be possible
to simply replace javascript :frowning:

There are other options though, have a look at http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/

Douglas

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:16:11 +0900, trans. <tsawyer@gmail.com> wrote:

hack Foxfire to use Ruby

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Very promising. I did not know IE coudle do this. Too bad IE isn't
cross-platform (and is on a downward growth slope), but what's really
too bad is that I don't read Japanese :frowning:

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Any macintosh browser that supports applescript (all of them to some extent or another) is also multi-language. So you can use RubyAEOSA to script them.

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On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:27 PM, James Britt wrote:

Well actually, there is at least one browser that is multi-language scriptable. Internet Explorer. And I believe that it acts as a general host for Microsoft Active Scripting, so ActiveScriptRuby should be usable there.