thoughts about parrot and firefox

James Fuller james.fuller.2007 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 06:41:26 UTC 2008


Hello,

I have been tinkering (as no doubt probably others) the idea of
extending firefox to use parrot ... the continuing rise of web apps in
the browser and js monopoly over these apps means there is a wide
opportunity here

Imagine:

<script type="application/x-perl">
   use warnings;
   say "Hello World";
</script>

or

<script src="someperlfile.pl"/>

Some work would have to go into exposing the web page as an object to
be worked with (as DOM is the natural way in firefox, might be the way
to initially go)

I thought that this was a neat way

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002

of possibly achieving client context perl processing but then thought
it would be better to integrate the entire parrot (akin to java
plugin).

There are the obvious problems of compat across all browser (esp IE)
and platforms but its easy enough to install a Mozilla plugin in a
single click (like firefox addon/extensions).

thoughts ?

J


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