Transcript and/or ECMA - guess who started it?

[Dave Cragg]

At 12:05 pm -0700 18/2/04, Dar Scott wrote:
>On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 11:24 AM, jbv wrote:

>One might need so support javascript in loaded web pages.  That
>person will either need to build javascript with Transcript or use
>some other method.  If it is available among 'do' languages that
>person might exploit it.

One practical use of having Javascript available among "do" languages 
would be the ability to parse those proxy.pac scripts that are used 
for automatic proxy configuration. I don't know if there are other 
areas where javascript is used as a standard for implementing 
services (aside from html pages), but if it's use becomes more 
widespread, priorities  will probably change.

If the "do" languages were to be expanded beyond AppleScript, I think 
Javascript should be high on the list of priorities. But this kind of 
support is different from using Javascript as an alternative to 
Transcript. I don't see any great need for that.

Dave