304967 - Grendel should have scripting support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Grendel Graveyard :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Kieran Maclean]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
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Grendel should have scripting (macro) support.

This could be JavaScript or some other language.

The advantage of JavaScript is that Rhino can be used to provide this as this is
it's intended purpose.

Scripting support could lead to security problems, these should be minimal and
the support should minimise these as far as possible. (This should be locked
down in a similar manor to applets running in a browser.)
I may be paranoid but if security is included at the design stage then it will
minimise the work if it should be a problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[R.J. Keller]

And of course we'd use Rhino because Rhino is the JavaScript engine of the
original Javagator project.

I actually already did this for MozCreator so all I'd have to do is move the
code over. I'll get to this once bug 304888 is checked in.

I'm happy that we're going to have Grendel scripting support because XUL Parser
2.0 that I have requires Rhino and I had a tough time coding it out. Now I don't
have to do that.

Comment 2

[R.J. Keller]

Just checked in the Rhino JAR file to CVS.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking wontfix as grendel is removed from cvs