From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2004-05-07T03:38:58+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved? In article <409A7AC8.2040403@vudmaska.com>, Paul Vudmaska wrote: >Sean Russell wrote: > >>ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message >news:... >> >> >>>That would be very nice. Maybe it's a matter of 'converting' the right >>>people in the Mozilla project. >>> >>> >> >>Maybe. I mean, it wouldn't be widespread unless other browsers >>started supporting it (IE, in particular), but it would be nice. I >>think if somebody submitted a patch to Mozilla that enabled this >>support, it might be kindly received. Perhaps not. >> >> >Plenty of folks out there mandate a browser - usually IE. For solutions >that i could ensure the browser to by moz, using a ruby interp would be >grrreat! The other thing to consider is that Mozilla has become a platform of it's own (see: "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" by McFarlane). On the current contract which requires a cross-platform GUI that does an awful lot of things that a browser does, we considered including Mozilla on our CD for doing this, however it was too large for our space budget (we have about 10MB available). However, if our space budget had been more like 20 to 25MB, Mozilla would have been the way to go. Being able to script Mozilla in Ruby would have been very nice. Phil