217464 - (tcl) support TCL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Domel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Mozilla should support TCL script language.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

great, i wish your luck with implmenting it -> assigning to the Reporter

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, any plan on how you should do this ?

Comment 3

[Colin McCormack]

I'm not the reporter, but there are a couple of things that might help.

One striking example: content/base/src/nsScriptLoader.cpp
 
  // If this isn't JavaScript, we don't know how to evaluate.
  // XXX How and where should we deal with other scripting languages??
  if (!isJavaScript) {
    return FireErrorNotification(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE, aElement, aObserver);
  }

Might instead drop through to load the script even if it !isJavaScript, at which
point an instance of nsIDOMHTMLScriptElement for the tcl script might be
created, and evaluated, by the (one would have thought simple, but possibly not)
expedient of letting nsHTMLScriptEventHandler::Invoke invoke the script.

Are there reasons why this wouldn't work fairly simply?

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Colin, you want to take this?  I'll file the blocking bug to get the
multi-script-language infrastructure designed and implemented.

/be

Comment 5

[Colin McCormack]

I'll take it, now most of the work's been done :)