On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Carlitos Esquer wrote: > Hello folks: > > I'm interested in develop javascrtip for netsurf, but besides that i 've > got another proposal for you. > Why don't develop a browser with another script language. We can use ruby, > which is one of those languages, in my humble opinion, created for the job.
No, no, no, no :) There's useful implementation of Ruby (ie, fast, small, self-contained, memory-efficient, history of good security), and given to the nearest hundredth of a percent nobody uses NetSurf, trying to use it to spearhead something like this will get you nowhere. > May it will be revolutionary as Rails. You mean the thing that's recently had a security flaw discovered in it simular to that even the PHP people realised was a bad idea a decade ago? :) > May be not, but we can try. I won't stop you. > Including Ruby will be not so hard, cause is designed to be used like that. Although it has a significantly less nice API and is less portable than, say, Lua. > We need to separate the DOM from each page and let the scriupts to create > the objects needed for manipulation. Right: so the first job is to implement a DOM. This is language agnostic, and is a lot of work. > Ruby supports well Gtk2 after all. This isn't relevent to NetSurf. B.
