Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Re: Interested on javascript development, but...

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Carlitos Esquer wrote:
> Hello folks:
>
> I'm interested in develop javascrtip for netsurf, but besides that i 've
> got another proposal for you.
> Why don't develop a browser with another script language. We can use ruby,
> which is one of those languages, in my humble opinion, created for the job.

No, no, no, no :) There's useful implementation of Ruby (ie, fast,
small, self-contained, memory-efficient, history of good security), and
given to the nearest hundredth of a percent nobody uses NetSurf, trying
to use it to spearhead something like this will get you nowhere.

> May it will be revolutionary as Rails.

You mean the thing that's recently had a security flaw discovered in it
simular to that even the PHP people realised was a bad idea a decade
ago? :)

> May be not, but we can try.

I won't stop you.

> Including Ruby will be not so hard, cause is designed to be used like that.

Although it has a significantly less nice API and is less portable than,
say, Lua.

> We need to separate the DOM from each page and let the scriupts to create
> the objects needed for manipulation.

Right: so the first job is to implement a DOM. This is language
agnostic, and is a lot of work.

> Ruby supports well Gtk2 after all.

This isn't relevent to NetSurf.

B.

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