using other languages in <script>, was: Use case 4 is written up

On 24.01.2011 07:52, John Cowan wrote:
> See http://esw.w3.org/HTML_XML_Use_Case_04 .  It's informally written,
> but I think it's the truth and nothing but the truth (the whole truth
> is rather beyond my scope).

I recall that I read a long time ago that IE uses Window's scripting 
interfaces to instantiate the script engine. Thus, it *could* be 
possible to experiment with new scripting languages in IE right now.

See <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292164%28v=vs.71%29.aspx>:

> Windows Script Host
>
> Windows Script Host (WSH) is a language-independent scripting environment for 32-bit Windows platforms. With WSH, Microsoft offers VBScript, JScript, and JScript .NET scripting engines. These scripting languages can be used in the ASP pages of a Web server, in HTML pages that run in Internet Explorer, and in Windows Script Host scripting engines on Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

Best regards, Julian

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