On 11/23/10 3:05 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i just wanna know, what you thinking about subject?
> How easy/hard to integrate smalltalk VM into browsers? It it feasible?
> I know, there is (or was) a Squeak browser plugin. But it provides a
> functionality like java,
> but not like javascript.
> While i thinking, that it would be cool to use smalltalk directly in
> pages, as javascript.
> It could open quite interesting possibilities.
>
> What you think?
>
It should be easy to embed squeak into any arbitrary application, but 
from all accounts its not nearly as easy as embedding, say, Lua. Which 
is sad, because if I knew how, I would have embedded squeak into the 
Second Life viewer years ago.

As far as squeak substituting for javascript goes, you'd have a lot of 
security issues to address, which is one of the reasons why the squeak 
plugin never took off, i believe. A friend of mine called it "a hacker's 
dream" when they first introduced it 10+ years ago.

Lawson