From: tsumeruby@...
Date: 2005-12-08T11:11:32+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyScript

On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:13 am, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> Well, I think that's what the OP was referring to, whether any
> browsers supported it "Out of the Box". While RubyScript is cool and
> great, it's not very useful for a public site if you have to hope the
> users have installed the plugin first.
>
> What we need, rather -- since we're pretty much stuck with JavaScript
> as the defacto standard -- is to continue to publicize the libraries
> like Prototype that make working with JavaScript much more palatable
> and, in some ways, Rubyesque.
>

I disagree with being stuck with javascript. People are stuck with javascript 
as a programmer stuck to php. You have a choice, and you need to force a user 
to install it. Wide usage will get more attention. If you also look at the 
Mozilla project, they are embedded Python stubs in for the next milestone so 
it will be easy to use XUL+Python. I really would want this to be XUL+Ruby 
though.

Tsume