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 -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051130/801c5b6c/attachment.pgp>
