Python in Internet Explorer

Michael Stevens mstevens at firedrake.org
Wed May 23 07:33:53 EDT 2001


On 22 May 2001 22:30:35 -0700, Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com> wrote:
>> 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.

I've worked on projects which very successfully allow java applets
to modify the page by using liveconnect and some javascript to interface
between java and the content of the page.

Michael



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