Jimmy Olgeni wrote:
 
> Once upon a time there was a TCL plugin that allowed to run small Tcl/Tk
> based applications, "tclets", inside a web browser.

Still exists, AFAIK.
 
> Is there any project to have "rublets" too? :o)

I haven't seen any mention of it. IIRC, someone did a proof-of-concept 
version in Perl several years ago, but I've seen no current refs. I 
"think" someone also tried this from Python, but I suspect JPython would 
have pretty much eclipsed any interest in it. 

Why would you want to use a rublet? How would you want it to work? If 
others knew the answers to these questions, they might be able to suggest 
a better idea, or at least a more readily implementable idea.

I have no idea if the following half-baked idea would be (practically) 
feasible, but could someone create a generic Java applet (with some sort 
of connection (maybe SOAP-related?)) that could interpret some generalized 
GUI-specification supplied by the driving Ruby program? Maybe a Ruby/CORBA 
interface to Java/CORBA/Swing would be a "better" approach (albeit maybe 
still hopelessly unwieldy).

Conrad Schneiker
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