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On 6/28/06, Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com> wrote:

> Yep, it would be.  Then again, Mark Hammond has already done a bunch of work
> for pyXPCOM, so getting Python compiled right into Firefox itself shouldn't
> be too bad.

Of course, that's the road Sun first went down with Java, and that

turned out not-so-well for them.  I think the plug-in approach may be
stronger (but admittedly more limited), as lots of plug-ins work with
many different browsers, thus encouraging page designers to actually

use them.

Right.  As I have said, for widespread use an extension will be needed.

-Brett