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Does Jacl or Tcl Blend work inside a web browser?

April 26, 2017blend browser jacl tcl web

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Does Jacl or Tcl Blend work inside a web browser?

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No. Running Jacl inside a web browser or Tcl Blend inside the Tcl plugin is not supported. There are far too many issues related to security and flaky Java implementations inside browsers to make this feasible. For example, both the Netscape and IE implementations of Java disallow introspection of Java classes, so commands in the java package would not work. It is just not worth the trouble of trying to support running things in a web browser. Is there a Mac port? No, there has historically been little or no interest expressed in running Jacl or Tcl Blend on the Mac. Some user have reported that Jacl works just fine on MacOSX.