[Zope-Moz] Python in a XUL file

[Paul Everitt]

This conversation has focused on the goal of having Python be a page
scripting language, and thus has run into the brickwall of the DOM.

However, as we'll soon probably find out in Zope Studio, it sure would
be nice to have access to Python for client-side processing independent
of Python manipulating the document or being embedded in pages.  For
instance, parsing the syntax of DTML.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ascher [mailto:DavidA@ActiveState.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:01 PM
> To: zope-mozilla@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-Moz] Python in a XUL file
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
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