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> surprising that browsers never supported perl client side? They did, actually: https://perlhelp.web.cern.ch/Components/Windows/PerlScript.html https://perlh
by 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.