[Python-Dev] doc for new restricted execution design for Python (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Jun 28 18:59:51 CEST 2006


On 6/27/06, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> The plan is to allow pure Python code to be embedded into web pages like > JavaScript. I am not going for the applet approach like Java. Java support is now just a plug-in. Should be easy to make a Python plug-in system that works the same way. If only we had a GUI... :-)

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.

If this really takes off, will probably want both: get into Firefox, but have an extension for pre-existing installations.

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