Python in Internet Explorer

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com
Wed May 23 01:30:35 EDT 2001


D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> writes:

> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:00:02PM +0100, Darren Watson wrote:
> | Is it possible to use Python as a scripting language for HTML pages in a
> | similar way to VBScript?
> 
> Yes.  AFAIK no widely used browser has a python interpreter included,
> but all of them have java interpreters.
<snip>

Java applets appear in a box on a page.  They cannot, AFAIK, react to
user input in other parts of the page, or modify the page's content
outside that box, which is what scripts are generally used for.

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