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Mozilla 2.0 XUL: тип сценария = приложение / x-python

Интересный пост в блоге Брендана Эйха : « Обязательна платформа Mozilla 2.0» .

— libxul.so/libxul.dll: сделает XUL встраиваемым в другие платформы (возможно, PHP-XUL или PHP-GTK?)

— Поддержка Python: более поздний комментарий предполагает:

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Given deep misunderstanding of Javascript and Pythons growing popularity, seems like a very smart move. Whether that would become a default part of Firefox, allowing web apps to use client side Python is another question though.

Some insightful comments as well, such as;

1 of 2: Documentation.
2 of 2: Test suites.

1. Establishing trust and newbie productivity on a platform is more important than whether a platform can technically do any given thing out of the box, or even at all.

2. Documentation and lack of bugs compared to that documentation is more important for establishing trust and newbie productivity than anything else.

XUL may be a great idea but getting people to use it is another thing.