Dossy, or some other knowledgeable person, could you add something to the wiki about this, if only so that people know it's there, and can find out who to talk to/how to help if they're interested? This sounds extremely interesting to me although I don't quite yet understand what server-side JS would look like.
Titi Ala'ilima Lead Architect MedTouch LLC 1100 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617.621.8670 x309 > -----Original Message----- > From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Aufflick > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:27 PM > To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver focus > > On 8/7/07, Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) JavaScript: the SpiderMonkey JS engine is thread-safe and I've > been > > integrating it into AOLserver (see: nsjsapi). John Resig has > started > > a small JS library that makes running some client-side JS on the > > server-side, which I'm hoping to take advantage of. My rationale > > here is that JS is probably the single web scripting language that > is > > known by the most number of people; regardless of which web stack > you > > use, you're also going to have to use JavaScript. Why not just > build > > the entire web stack with JavaScript, on the client and server > side? > > Wow - that's very exciting. I always thought Javascript on the server > was a good idea, but after Netscape's server folded it never really > got picked up by anyone else. > > Javascript is a fantastic language - excellent OO and functional > support, familiar syntax, and there are a lot of developers (now) who > understand it's intricacies well. > > Dossy I assume nsjsapi is in cvs? I'll go check it out. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
