Re: [ANN] luakit 2012.09.13

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2012-09-14 7:42 AM, "Mason Larobina" <mason.larobina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 September 2012 19:01, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13 September 2012 10:21, Mason Larobina <mason.larobina@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> A new luakit version has been released, changelog can be found here:
> >>
> >>   http://mason-larobina.github.com/luakit/news/luakit-2012.09.13.html
> >
> > Great to know the project is still going well! This is definitely one
> > of my favourite uses of Lua in an everyday user application.
>
> Thanks, it's certainly been fun to build & use (apart from libwebkit
> annoyances).
>
> > The changelog says you can now call into Lua from _javascript_. Is it
> > possible to go the other way, and also to override existing JS APIs?
>
> Yes but I wouldn't recommend replacing any DOM API functions.
>
> To illustrate, in a luakit instance run:
>
>     :lua w.view:register_function("string_format", string.format);
>
> Which will eval the given argument as Lua code & set the variable
> `string_format` to the Lua library function `string.format` in the
> global context on the currently focused tab.
>
> An easy way to interactively test this is opening the
> WebKitWebInspector (`:inspect`) and in the console tab run:
>
>     > string_format("A number %d, a string %s", 100, "called Wanda.")
>     "A number 100, a string called Wanda."
>
> > Regards,
> > Matthew
>

Hmm, now the next step is to replace JS with Lua entirely... ;-)