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Guido Anselmi
Guido Anselmi

Reputation: 3912

Browser using Java not Javascript as DOM manipulation language

Is/was there a browser that used Java instead of Javascript as it's client-side programming language?

I appreciate that it would have required sites to have multiple versions of their client-side scripting logic as Javascript always seems to have been the dominant language.

Not as an Applet language, but as the language for interacting with the DOM.

I am aware that IE used VBScript for a while.

I am doing a research project on the evolution of the browser and there is so much noise in search engines for these terms that it is difficult to answer this question.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 177

Answers (1)

Andrey Chaschev
Andrey Chaschev

Reputation: 16476

There is a WebView (based on the WebKit) in JavaFX 2 in which you can pass a Java object to JavaScript an call methods on it.

So this can be considered as a browser running on a JVM. Here is an example of how Google Maps are rendered in this browser: Maps in JavaFX 2.0.

JS-to-Java call sample: WebViewSample.

Upvotes: 1

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