That's thinking outside-the-box baby!

Perl is good for lots of things, but I imagine it would be slow for event-driven stuff like in-browser features.

So, I ask your question with a question - what's the problem you're trying to solve? I think it would be extra fancy to have a perl-plugin browser type thing to help me build regular expressions - OR - to have perl's regular expression capabilities built into something that munges disconnected recordsets, client-side.

But I digress, I'm not sure that's the best tool for the job. Security is job one, definitely. So (hypothetically) what would warrant using perl on the client side, in a web application?

For the life of me, I can't think of it right now. Perl is great for a lot of things. Maybe an in-browser perl object editor would be something useful. Like some in-browser unit-testing device that lets you feed it regexp's and gives you a result based on some disconnected recordset. I have no idea. But I like your thinking!



-mr.dunstan

In reply to Re: possible: a perl plugin for web browsers? by mr.dunstan
in thread possible: a perl plugin for web browsers? by drfrog

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