From: Avdi Grimm Date: 2008-04-15T23:20:07+09:00 Subject: Re: making Ruby a standard browser side language On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:25 AM, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote: > it looks like Prototype was made to mimic Ruby in Javascript, and people > who use Prototype usually love it. I wonder if Ruby can be made into > another browser side language and what can make that happen? If Firefox > adds a Ruby interpreter to its browser and some killer websites come out > with features only supported by Ruby-enabled browsers, maybe Microsoft > and Apple will have incentive to make Ruby go into IE and Safari too? Microsoft is way ahead of Mozilla and Apple in that department. Silverlight allows web pages to be scripted with Ruby. But I don't think it's going to take off, any more than previous attempts to put VBScript, Python, TCL, etc. in the browser have succeeded. Browser makers have a hard enough time standardizing their rendering of [X]HTML, ECMAScript, and CSS without adding more languages for them to handle in subtly incompatible ways. -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com