Mozilla, XUL and...Python?

[Tim Churches]

The whole architecture of the Mozilla browser is very impressive,
especially the ability to create applications using an XML-based
specification (XUL). The only wrinkle is that the only client-side
scripting language mentioned is JavaScript. Clearly support for
JavaScript is essential, but is it possible for other scripting
langauges, in particular Python, to be embedded in Mozilla? I know that
David Ascher at ActiveState is working on a Mozilla/XUL-based Python
(and Perl?) development environment, but its not clear whether as a
result of this project Python will end up embedded in Mozilla as an
alternative scripting language, with full support for the DOM2 object
model used by Mozilla. Is that being worked on? Mozilla has been
described as an "Application Virtual Machine" which will allow
application deployment on any platform on which Mozilla runs (just like
the promise of the Java Virtual Machine...but Mozilla might succeed
where java has partially failed). Surely this is a boat which Python
can't afford to miss.

Tim C