Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:21:56 +0000
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Render into an existing XWindow ID?
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From: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:04:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
[running OCaml programs embedded in a browser plugin]
> That would be really great.

Sort of :-)

Not actually very useful I think.  I was only doing it as an
experiment, and FWIW it's not working at the moment.

There are some problems I can think of:

* You still need the whole OCaml environment checked out and up
  to date on the client machine, so this isn't really seamless
  client-server computing.  In fact, in some ways OCaml is worse
  because it's very sensitive to having the precise matching libraries
  before anything will run.

* Security - none: it's easy to create malicious bytecode with
  OCaml, so you wouldn't want to run untrusted bytecode under
  any circumstances.

Anyway, if I come up with anything which works, I'll be sure to post a
message about it!

Rich.

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