Rant on web browsers

[Dan Stromberg]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Martin P. Hellwig
> <martin.hellwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/06/2011 07:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > <cut>
> >>
> >> But if anyone feels like writing an incompatible browser, please can
> >> you add Python scripting?
> >
> > You might find that Pyjamas already fill your needs python/javascript
> wise.
> > It is truly great to just write python, translate it, and then have it
> work
> > in the browser.
>
> I had a (very) quick glance at that; it entails a fairly large library
> that has to get loaded. It still comes down to "the only way to
> improve this is to dish out a huge helping of .js to everyone who
> comes", which imho is unideal.
>
> That said, though, my context for this job was "tiny thing, just do
> the same as you're doing on the back-end". For something larger, I may
> well give Pyjamas a whirl.
>

You probably want Pyajamas + a javascript compressor.

I'm a little mystified why people keep talking as though Pyjamas doesn't
exist.  Granted, it's only Python 2.x, but still.
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