Mozilla x (Perl + Python) = New IDE

WhyteRabbyt writes: "ActiveState have announced Komodo, an open-source IDE for Perl, Python and Javascript. The application framework is to be based on Mozilla. The press release is here." tenchiken contributed a bit more information about the project, writing: "More information is here , including the announcement a few days ago that they would be writing python and perl bindings to XPCOM. Like Perl? How 'bout client side perl!" No, it's not out yet -- but it's cool to see Mozilla as the engine behind yet another project.

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Mozilla in 2001; "It's everywhere everywhere!"

[Spoing]

Maybe I'm a little nuts. When I mention this to others, they don't seem to get it. I'll let you decide...

I'm not surprised that Komodo uses parts of Mozilla this way. It's an obvious and practical job that Mozilla is well suited for.

In the next six months, I would be stunned if more programs don't use parts of Mozilla in exactly the way that Komodo does -- both in public and for private projects -- from custom document archiving, information kiosks, and no doubt in the 'Internet Appliances' we're seeing more and more of.

I don't expect that most of these new programs will be anything like web browsers. Mozilla -- as the mother of all monster widget sets -- is well suited to to be part of just about any program.

Mozilla has the ability to turn into a pervasive toolkit, as pervasive as Perl but even more visible to the user.

I pointed this out to a Mac user once, and they responded flatly "Well, I like IE".

Not getting the point, I said "Well, you could use IE as your browser, but parts of Mozilla will show up in more programs...it's the basis of many other programs."

Mac user: Blink. Blink. Silence.

On a different note, the only thing that concerns me with Mozilla are security problems with XML, though I'd expect XML engines to have problems once people push it a bit more. The security problems that I'm not aware of, similar to the ability to get postscript printers to do odd things -- like serve up web pages.

Client side perl? Got it

[rjamestaylor]

Client-side perl has been available for a long time. But it's only available using a certain browser:

The folks at ActiveState have also developed something they call PerlScript, which is an ActiveX scripting engine for Perl. This means you can use Perl as your scripting language with any application on Windows that supports ActiveX scripting, such as Internet Explorer, Active Server Pages files, and the Windows Scripting Host. Not too shabby, eh?

(From http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/essentials/webm en/webmen1103.asp)

Yep. That's right. Client-side perl using Internet Explorer. Since 1997.