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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:52:55 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] abaco and gmail
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i don't know how fgb is doing, but after reading the ecmascript spec, i was
considerably less hopeful that i'd have the time to implement it.  imho, the worst
feature is that it requires having a runtime scanner and parser because javascript
can generate code at runtime and call it.  also, javascript requires that one map
page elements to javascripts object model -- one can theoretically reference any
element of a page from javascript.  

this tight coupling of the browser and javascript engine means that importing an
engine doesn't sound like even less fun than writing one.

on the other hand, perhaps this is an inspiration for a followon to acme.
with the right model, it would be considerably more fun to implement.

- erik