From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-11-07T20:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6116] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like?

Guy N. Hurst wrote:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
> >
> > A comment I heard several times at OOPSLA was that Ruby could take
> > over the world if it had a good browser.

> Being a web developer, I was envisioning something viewable from a web
browser.
> Best I could do with that is perhaps just a sort of tree structure that
> dynamically figures out associated objects.

Web browser. Hmm. That reminds me of ActiveState's "Upcoming Releases",
which includes "Mozilla-based cross-platform, multi-language IDE: Komodo".
This is supposed to be released as open source--sometime very soon (i.e.
this year), IIRC. If it lives up to its initial press releases, this might
be what we want to use for RIDE (Ruby-IDE). This would require that someone
do the Mozilla XPCOM interface to support Ruby scripting of Mozilla, which
might be a worthwhile task in its own right. (ActiveState was reportedly
doing the XPCOM interface for Perl and Python.)

One can imagine RIDE (Ruby-Komodo) with its fingers in the RubyCentral
reference documentation would be pretty handy. (Although that could also
still be achieved in a much more klunky fashion using Ruby/Tk.)

If Mozilla turned out to be a decent cross-platform GUI framework, one could
do GUI apps with a self-extending RIDE, including the cosmic Ruby
hyper-browser itself.

Conrad