[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 18103] New: Non-JS scripting languages

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18103

           Summary: Non-JS scripting languages
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: Platform
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: psygnisfive at yahoo.com


It would be very useful if WebKit (and all other browsers, but especially
WebKit) had non-JS scripting language support. Perhaps even something that
enables the coder to create language interpreters/translators that can be
referenced like

<script type="text/custom:<interpreter-url>">...</script>

What the interpreter would look like I couldn't say; perhaps a parse table +
mapping to an underlying set of standard functions implemented in the browser's
language of choice, I don't know. But it'd be really useful to be able to have
a language other than JS for doing front end work, and being able to specify
the language on the fly like you specify can specify other parts of the
document (DTD, for example) would be very beneficial. And if the on-the-fly
method is chosen, it would make it less work on the developers so they don't
have to then decide what languages to implement, etc.

I believe Mozilla is working on something similar, but I don't know how that's
going.


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