From: Adam P. <ada...@gm...> - 2011-03-28 19:26:12
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Hi Tcl-gsoc, I'm quite interested in making such a plugin for Firefox. I'm curious if some alternative for JavaScript could be made in client-side scripting, and GSoC appears to be great occasion for this and if this will make Tcl more popular, we'll maybe say goodbye to JS someday :) I don't have any experience with Tcl for now, but this could be easily changed, as I'm learning fast. I'm on my third year of Informatics studies on Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland and I'll give some short `about me' webpage in a day or two. I've used Firefox for several years and I appreciate great job that have been made with latest versions of Firefox, which I still have on my Gentoo, although I use Chromium now. I never tried to write any .xpi plugin, but that is the experience I'd like to have. I also now, that one of my friends want to send his application for the `Tcl Plugin for Netbeans' project, so with this, it'd be nice to have a fully-Tcl framework (ATWF), with Tcl client-side scripts that can be easily debugged. Maybe it'll be a chance for Tcl to became more popular, just like Ruby became more popular thanks to Rails. If you have any more detailed information about what you're expecting from this project or any tips about what should I learn first, I'll be appreciate to hear that. Thanks, Adam Przybylski (webfreak) |
From: Colin M. <co...@ch...> - 2011-03-30 23:10:34
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On 29/03/11 06:26, Adam Przybylski wrote: > Hi Tcl-gsoc, > > I'm quite interested in making such a plugin for Firefox. I'm curious > if some alternative for JavaScript could be made in client-side > scripting, and GSoC appears to be great occasion for this and if this > will make Tcl more popular, we'll maybe say goodbye to JS someday :) > > I don't have any experience with Tcl for now, but this could be easily > changed, as I'm learning fast. > I'm on my third year of Informatics studies on Gdańsk University of > Technology, Poland and I'll give some short `about me' webpage in a > day or two. I have some questions. 1) What is your understanding of the process of generating an .xpi? 2) How much C interfacing to the xpi framework is required? 2 a) How competent do you consider yourself to be in C? 2 b) What is your understanding of the places Tcl might need to be modified to interface to xpi? 3) To be useful, such a plugin must be able to access the DOM, 3 a) Is this part of the project you envisage? 3 b) What tools exist to permit this? 3 c) How would you present such a DOM access interface to Tcl? I'll probably think of some more. Colin. > > I've used Firefox for several years and I appreciate great job that > have been made with latest versions of Firefox, which I still have on > my Gentoo, although I use Chromium now. I never tried to write any > .xpi plugin, but that is the experience I'd like to have. > > I also now, that one of my friends want to send his application for > the `Tcl Plugin for Netbeans' project, so with this, it'd be nice to > have a fully-Tcl framework (ATWF), with Tcl client-side scripts that > can be easily debugged. Maybe it'll be a chance for Tcl to became more > popular, just like Ruby became more popular thanks to Rails. > > If you have any more detailed information about what you're expecting > from this project or any tips about what should I learn first, I'll be > appreciate to hear that. > > Thanks, > Adam Przybylski (webfreak) > |