Haven't listened yet. Not sure it's a good idea, though. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Hilton Shumway<[email protected]> wrote: > Did you listen to today's FLOSS Weekly? I don't particularly like the idea > of using Silverlight either, just wondering. And it looks like we don't need > an ActiveX control... > Hilton > > Send me all the forwards/chain mails you want. No guaranties I will freak > out, cry, continue, or otherwise do anything with (or even read) them > though. > A selected quote: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - > Sir Francis Bacon > A random quote: > Mike Ditka - "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given > us arms." > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Joshua Gardner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'd be disinclined to use Silverlight for this project unless you can >> show me something actually using it. I've never heard of using >> IronPython in Silverlight before, and I've never actually used a >> Silverlight app (tried but Moonlight always chokes on them and I don't >> have a fast enough Windows machine to deal with Silverlight). >> >> That's another consideration: performance. And size too. Embedding >> IronPython -- almost the entirety of it I'd expect -- inside of a >> Silverlight app doesn't sound like a good idea. >> >> What's the matter with HTML+CSS+JavaScript (and a few other things >> like SVG and XML) on the browser side anyway? >> >> -Josh >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Hilton Shumway<[email protected]> wrote: >> > IronPython is a Python implementaion written it C# on the .NET platform. >> > This is of interest to us because Silverlight/Moonlight includes >> > IronPython, >> > allowing us to write Python for web browsers. >> > Is this of any interest? There of course are folks who would shun us if >> > we >> > even think about using Mono. Also, any bits of Parliament etc that use C >> > would need to be rewritten to use C#... >> > >> > Hilton >> > >> > Send me all the forwards/chain mails you want. No guaranties I will >> > freak >> > out, cry, continue, or otherwise do anything with (or even read) them >> > though. >> > A selected quote: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. >> > - >> > Sir Francis Bacon >> > A random quote: >> > Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find >> > myself >> > loving dogs." >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gavel-team >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gavel-team >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed. >> --Frederick Bastiat >> >> GCS/B/M d+ s+ a--- C++ UL++ Py+++ L+++ E- W++ w-- M- PS+++ PE+++ Y+>++ >> PGP+ t+ R tv- b+ DI++ G e h! r! y- > >
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