Re: [9fans] abaco and gmail

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

a tight coupling is transparent in (oz/any)inferno.

On 2/17/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> 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
>