From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2004-03-18T11:04:37+09:00
Subject: Ruby and Mozilla

I've been considering, for a while now, starting a "reward" fund to
have someone code up a patch for the Mozilla codebase that would allow
Mozilla to use Ruby as a scripting language.  There's been some
half-hearted talk about this in the past, but I'm not a C developer
(anymore) and while I don't have time to work on any such project, I'd
be happy to contribute some dollars to someone who was willing.

Are there any like-minded folk out there?  I'm just making noises at
the moment, and trying to see what people think about this.

One idea that's been flitting about my head has been that Mozilla is a
XUL engine, making it a full-fledged GUI toolkit in itself.  If Ruby
code were executable within Mozilla, we'd instantly have a GUI toolkit
that ranks up among the top two or three ubiquitous cross-platform
toolkits in the world.

In the long run, there'd be some sandboxing issues to consider, but
it'd be interesting to see where this could go.

Just a thought.

--- SER