Re: Best Scripting Environment Ever. Best Desktop Technology Ever.

I thought JavaScript was limited to browsing activities.  It would be terribly 
unsecure if a script off the web could access your computer.

 Alan Baljeu



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From: Kim Gräsman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 1:11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Best Scripting Environment Ever. Best Desktop Technology Ever.

  
Synchronicity. I just used JavaScript with WSH the other day to do
some shell + automation scripting. Then again, I think it's nice
mostly in the sense that it's always available on Windows boxes, I
never have to worry about prerequisites.

- Kim

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 01:27, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> IE (even as far back as 5.0) + HTML + JavaScript +
> Scripting.FileSystemObject on Windows.
>
> It has been right under our noses all these years.  Just like AJAX was.
>
> I used to do ASP.NET, but now I do a lot of work on very walled off,
> locked down systems, and am often in need of a scripting language.
> Usually I end up doing something "creative".  But recently I had the
> good fortune of being truly checkmated.  I had only a very walled off
> Windows 2003 machine to work with.  But this turned out to be great
> because instead of loading Powershell or Visual Studio, it forced me
> to try writing a utility using JavaScript and HTML.  It was
> outstandingly productive.  Is there any simpler *desktop* UI
> technology than HTML in a browser?  And any more powerful scripting
> language than JavaScript?  How could I have missed this all these
> years?
>
> It is amazing how far backwards we went with ASP.NET, WPF etc.