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Re: [XBL] Supporting non-ECMAScript scripting languages

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:59:41 +0000 (UTC)
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0701090158270.22379@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> 
> The document is currently (understandably) biased towards ECMAScript. 
> Some parts however, such as section 5.4, are described only in terms of 
> how ECMAScript is supported.  There should be language in there to guide 
> implementors on how to support other scripting languages (for example on 
> how the public/private implementation objects should look in general).

It really depends on the language. I don't see how generic text could be 
written. Do you have any suggestions? If any other languages were to be 
used, they'd need a spec first anyway to ensure interoperability, so I'm 
not sure that it would help to have suggestive text.

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