From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-19T15:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

|Eric Hodel wrote:
>Phil Tomson (ptkwt@aracnet.com) wrote:
>
> Also, I could be wrong as I haven't had to deal much with JS, but 
doesn't=
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> JS hide the guns&knives meaning that it doesn't let you do certain 
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> like copy files around, etc.?

|This is what Mozilla's XPCOM allows.  Naturally, access to the XPCOM
|layer is only allowed from within the browser chrome, signed scripts, or
|on reciept of special permission from the user.

> For example, I don't think you could (using JS) get a file from a=20
> particular website and then copy it to some specific directory on 
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> machine, for example. (but I could be wrong) =20

|http://jslib.mozdev.org for local FS access and XmlHTTPRequest for
|fetching a file off the web will do the trick.

So since there is already a Ruby/XPCOM interface 
(http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/) the part we are missing is Ruby/XUL?

Phil