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All fair points, but still, don't you think it's a little surprising that browsers never supported perl client side? That seems like the obvious one to me given
by dcminter 5y ago
All fair points, but still, don't you think it's a little surprising that browsers never supported perl client side? That seems like the obvious one to me given all the cgi scripting written in it.
- eqvinox 5y ago> surprising that browsers never supported perl client side? They did, actually: https://perlhelp.web.cern.ch/Components/Windows/PerlScript.html https://perlhelp.web.cern.ch/Components/Windows/PerlScript.h... If you installed ActivePerl, you could use, in IE 5.0, <script language=perlscript>…</script> I even remember using this for shits and giggles. And then I noticed noone else was willing to install it, and gave up on it. (Don't get confused by the server-side bits, those are for IIS, this stuff did both server-side and client-side...) [Ed.add.: also I don't think Netscape ever supported anything other than JavaScript, but I'm not sure of that.]
- dcminter 5y agoNice! I had no idea that existed!
- jordemort 5y agoI actually used the server-side version of PerlScript to mix some code from CPAN into a classic ASP application, way back at the dawn of my career. It was pretty neat. I, too, had dreams of using the client-side version, but getting folks to install it was indeed much too tough of a sell.