RE: [pygame] pygame web plugin

["Noah Kantrowitz" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of yanom @linuxmail.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:55 PM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] pygame web plugin
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "machinimist@xxxxxxxxx" <machinimist@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [pygame] pygame web plugin
> > Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 02:07:08 +0200
> >
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i would like to bring up this topic again since a python based open
> source
> > alternative to flash which could be used to create browser games
> would
> > be super awesome. :)
> >
> > if i understand this correctly then the main problem of something
> like that
> > is security.
> >
> > i noticed on the blender mailing list that someone started to revive
> the
> > blender game engine web plugin. they use python too and apparently
> they have
> > found a way to sandbox python.
> >
> > http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2008-
> August/021660.html
> >
> > what do you think about this?
> > wouldn't a web plugin be a big opportunity for pygame?
> > i am no expert on all of this though... maybe making a web version of
> > pygame is totally unfeasible?
> 
> >
> I don't know much about servers and the like, but here is my theory (
> It would be more like Java Web Start than a pulgin ):
> 
> users should download python, along with another tool that i would call
> Python Web Start (PWS). To use online applications, they would execute
> PWS and enter the URL of the desired web application into PWS. PWS
> would then present a list of all of the PWS apps available on that
> site. Once the user choose one, PWS would download a main python
> script, along with any dependancies, to a temperary folder in the PWS
> directory. (PWS apps would only be alowed to access their own private
> subfolder in the temp. folder without direct user permission). PWS
> would then execute the main script using python.

This is a very bad idea. If you need to ask why, you shouldn't be trying to
build a web-based VM.

--Noah