[Zope-Moz] Python in a XUL file

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:01:11 -0800


> If I could just put python into XUL documents and have
> it work, why, I'd be a happy man. But you have to have an interpreter
first.
> Anybody know enough about the JSConnect stuff to have a guess at how hard
it
> would be to do the same for python? Or maybe JPython?

Short answer: very hard, impossible without a fork of the source.  Access to
the DOM can't be done currently through anything besides JavaScript.  The
Mozilla team is aware of the problem and has plans to remedy the situation.
It will not happen soon.

--david ascher