On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:20:08PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Why bother implementing a completely separate search engine? In reality 
> this only needs to be a simple program that does a reverse lookup on 
> indices. A friend of mine already did an implementation of this as his 
> Master's Degree Project.

It would surely be useful to have it integrated into fproxy. It is
considerably more useful that way, and easier to bundle.
> 
> I can ask him to subscribe to the list and discuss it.
> 
> The downside is that his implementation is done in JavaScript in the 
> browser. It works, but it's been decided in the past that JavaScript in 
> Freenet pages is bad, and this disabled. Sadly, the only way around it 
> is to have some kind of an even more crippled scripting mechanism exist 
> in the node itself.
> 
> As always, it's not possible to have a cake after eating it.

We are NOT going to provide a scripting language, either client or node
side, before 1.0.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Gordan
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