Re: [MacPerl] I'm back! :-)

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

markem@flash.net, mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
Subj:	Re: [MacPerl] I'm back!  :-)

Mark Manning wrote:

>Thanks to everyone for replying.  I can tell there are others who are
>just as excited about finally getting what I call a VPB (Visual,
>Programmable, Browser).  I've been playing around with some things from
>time to time (or maybe I should say as time permits) to get a web
>browser with a Perl-like language up and running.  Not much success
>since I'm working on three other projects at home and four here at
>work.  Heh.  I feel like a jockey who's been asked to ride several
>horses at one time.  :-)
>
>My outlook on a VPB is that the browser should be a programming language
>which has certain standard items to it.  Like simple commands to open,
>close, and work with windows.  Must like MacPerl does it.  That HTML
>should simply be a program which is loaded in to the VPB and executed. 
>Thus, when a web page is downloaded, it is downloaded and then
>executed.  Either by the HTML program or by the VPB itself.
>
>Having Perl or MacPerl as the basis of the programming language would go
>a long way to easing the programming tasks which lie ahead.  The only
>thing is - if we are really going to be using Perl it has got to compile
>into some sort of byte code.  Otherwise, why would a company like
>Microsoft want anything to do with it?

Microsoft already does this. On Win 32 (NT/95) the Internet Explorer 
browser is scriptable with perl embedded in web pages via something 
that ActiveState makes called "PerlScript". AFAIK it only works on Win 32
but I do recall that Microsoft announced that they'd be shipping IE 
for the Mac real soon (if they have not done so already).

Go to http://www.activestate.com/  and look for information on "PerlScript".
ActiveState is supported in part by money from Microsoft.

Peter Prymmer


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