Matthew Toseland wrote: > We are NOT going to provide a scripting language, either client or node > side, before 1.0.
Thanks for clarifying that. :-) >>IMNSHO, the way forward is not implementing applets on the node to do >>various one-off jobs. It would be immensly more useful to come up with a >>scripting engine (e.g. JavaScript with a handle on some features, but >>without other, purely harmful features) which could then be used for >>writing any kind of an interractive freesite. > > > There are possibilities for limited interaction, e.g. applying XSL > sheets to index data, but full blown javascript support, no way. How are you going to deal with the simple fact that if people come up with truly useful interactive freesites based on JS, and they explain how to switch off the filtering, that a large number of users will just enable it anyway? It would probably be better to act than re-act. Gordan
