Clientside Scripting Language

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Is Javascript the only language that can utilise the DOM API? Is there a DOM wrapper for Python?

-1: Google searched DOM API Python, got http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.dom.html — machine yearning, Apr 08 '13 at 20:07
Also, Google searched DOM wrapper Python, got http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebBrowserProgramming — machine yearning, Apr 08 '13 at 20:10
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540214/can-python-be-used-for-client-side-web-development (the first result for a Google search of "client-side python"). — machine yearning, Apr 08 '13 at 20:12
If you can find a client who is using [Grail](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_(web_browser)) :) — root, Apr 08 '13 at 20:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:06

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Internet Explorer has support for client-side VBScript, but nobody really uses it. Javascript is an implementation of ECMAScript, by Brendan Eich at Netscape. It became the de-facto standard.

However, most languages have libraries written that can traverse an html document in the server side. In Python a common one is called Beautiful Soup.

answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:06

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AFAIK it's the other way around: ECMAScript is the standardization of Javascript (originally created by Brendan Eich at Netscape), after it was haphazardly re-implemented in incompatible ways by other browser vendors. Just for the record, eh. – Giacomo Lacava Sep 21 '15 at 20:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:08

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Technically you can also use Java Applets to manipulate the DOM. Why you would is a question that has probably led to the inevitable lack of popularity though.

answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:08

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:10

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There are in-browser implementations of Python: http://www.skulpt.org/

answered Apr 08 '13 at 20:10

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Can you manipulate the DOM from this implementation of Python? Not that I have any need to, but I am curious. – Jason Sperske Apr 08 '13 at 20:13
@JasonSperske I don't believe you can do so natively, you'd have to interact with JS for the browser interface. – Thomas Orozco Apr 08 '13 at 20:18
It's just a wrapper on top of javascript. An interpreted language on top of an interpreted language! Don't use this if you expect any performance! – 000 Apr 08 '13 at 20:18

Clientside Scripting Language

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