AJAX => APAX? Or: is there support for python in browsers?

[Michael Schneider]

Alex,

Good point.   Can python be used to write firefox extensions that could 
be called from javascript?

1) javascript would come in on the HTML page
2) javascript would communication with the Extension API
3) the extension would be written in python

That way, you would only need to make your extension's API safe to the wild.

It would require the user to download an extension, but flash, et all 
seem to do ok.

Is this possible today?

Thanks
Mike


PS.  Sorry for my ignorance on this, I am a client-side developer, 
trying to explore serious client development.

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>    ...
> 
>>Internet Explorer will allow any registered ActiveScript language to be
>>used in a web page.  Python qualifies.  In the latest Win32 extensions,
>>there is a script in win32comext/axscript/client/pyscript.py that will
>>register Python as an ActiveScript language.
>>
>>The you can say
>>
>>  <script language="python">
>>  print "<h1>Hello, there.</h1>"
>>  </script>
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, how "sandboxed" is this Python?  I remember a similar
> solution being withdrawn once because it wasn't really safely sandboxed,
> so the ``script'' could easily do any arbitrary damage to the machine...
> 
> 
> Alex


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