RE: [pygame] pygame web plugin

["yanom @linuxmail.org" <yanom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noah Kantrowitz" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [pygame] pygame web plugin
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:44:53 -0700
> 
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> 
> 
> > -----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

>
Like I said, I'm not too experienced in that area, I was just giving my two cents, care to explain why it's a bad idea?
also, i frogot to suggest that we build ClamAV into PWS for virus scanning of the python program

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