From: Michal Suchanek Date: 2006-02-08T19:13:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby in Browsers? On 2/7/06, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> The biggest problem with JavaScript is incompatible APIs across browsers.> Adding Ruby to the mix would only make cross-browser compatibility more> difficult. Unless you could magically get everyone out there to> simultaneously switch to a browser that provided client-side Ruby scripting> in exactly the same way, it would only add to the mess.>> If you really want client-side Ruby, start working on a> Ruby-to-ActionScript (or Flash bytecode) compiler.> That would be a great step back in compatibility. While you cancompile Mozilla or Konqueror for almost any platform you choose, andboth support JavaScript, the support for Flash is much worse.Flash is a proprietary technology, and the binary plugin to interpretit is available only for a handful of platforms. You can use it on OSX, win32, possibly win64 and wince, and x86 Linux. It is quite likelyit will work in emulation on x86 NetBSD or x86_64 Linux. But GNU/Linuxon ppc, mips, alpha, Solaris on anything, or any other OS is quitehopeless.There is a free flash player in which next to nothing works, and I amnot even sure it works as a browser plugin.I do not know waht is ActionScript. The situation with Java plugin issimilar except Sun makes a version for Solaris as well. So I do not see any cross-platform browser scripting other than JavaScript. Thanks Michal -- Support the freedom of music!Maybe it's a weird genre .. but weird is *not* illegal.Maybe next time they will send a special forces commandoto your picnic .. because they think you are weird. www.music-versus-guns.org http://en.policejnistat.cz