Mozilla, XUL and...Python?

[David Ascher]

> The bad news: It is evidently very difficult to change Mozilla to use
> a langauge other than Javascript as its scripting language.  They'd
> like to fix this, but it isn't going to happen soon.

That's correct.

> The good news: Mozilla is built around a COM copy called XPCOM.  David
> Ascher's work will let you write XPCOM objects in Python (or Perl) and
> use XPCOM objects from Python (or Perl).  This means that you could do
> almost everything in Python plus a thin Javascript glue layer.

That's almost correct.  While I'm leading the Mozilla-related work at
ActiveState, it's of course Mark Hammond who'se doing that work (anyone who
knows how much Mark and I respectively know about COM will understand that
distribution of tasks =).

-- David Ascher