From: Magicloud Magiclouds Date: 2008-04-16T14:55:35+09:00 Subject: Re: making Ruby a standard browser side language Avdi Grimm wrote: > 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. > > Firebird is working on "python script", not officially, but I think this is a good start, later though.