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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Jun 28 21:45:39 CEST 2006


On 6/28/06, Bill Janssen <janssen at 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.

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