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Bundling as standard your own proprietary plugin which you know no one else will bundle is definitely not pushing innovation, and is little different from Activ
by mitjak 16y ago
Bundling as standard your own proprietary plugin which you know no one else will bundle is definitely not pushing innovation, and is little different from ActiveX, DirectShow filters, VBScript and the rest.
- alnayyir 16y agoDear god, this, yes.
- Raphael_Amiard 16y agoWell my first reaction is the same as yours, but since python is OSS the possibility does indeed exist that this could be emulated amongst other browsers without needing Silverlight. The runtime API they present to python though, while it seems to be just the DOM exposed, would still need to be documented and standardized.
- Goosey 16y agoBut IronPython is FOSS. The fact that it is being bundled in a closed source plugin seems like an implementation detail to me. If Firefox wanted to they could expose this very same implementation of a python runtime engine.