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On 6/28/06, Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com> wrote:
Right. As I have said, for widespread use an extension will be needed.
-Brett
> 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