From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-03-18T23:53:58-08:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

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Phil Tomson (ptkwt@aracnet.com) wrote:

> |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=20
> > doesn't JS hide the guns&knives meaning that it doesn't let you do
> > certain things like copy files around, etc.?
>=20
> |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.
>=20
> > For example, I don't think you could (using JS) get a file from a
> > particular website and then copy it to some specific directory on=20
> > your 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.
>=20
> So since there is already a Ruby/XPCOM interface=20
> (http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/) the part we are missing is Ruby/XUL?

Yep!

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