[FRIAM] Stating the obvious

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Birchard Hayes wrote:
> The offending line is "using System;" which creates several problems.   
> The first is that this code will only run on Windows and only in  
> Internet Explorer.
That's the innovation.  CLR bytecodes are interpreted on a JavaScript 
interpreter.  For example, the demos they have on the Volta site work 
(http://labs.live.com/volta/samples.aspx) just fine in Firefox, if slowly.

Indeed `System' is native to Windows, and that fact could be detected 
such that CLI bytecodes could be directed to the native engine on a 
Windows or Mono-based system for fast execution.  Further, Firefox will 
also soon have a high performance JIT for JavaScript.
> Instead of using Microsoft's Volta, I would suggest using tools from  
> Google Code, http://code.google.com ,
Google does have GWT, but the difference is that they have a very simple 
toolkit, not all of Java EE, which would be the analogue to Volta/.NET.  
Also Google lacks the very substantial IP in compiler technology that 
Microsoft has.
> or Yahoo's developer kits, http://developer.yahoo.com 
You mean Microsoft's.   ;-)