This post shows you how to build and smoketest a JavaScript shell for Microsoft Windows Vista SUA using the SpiderMonkey 1.8 sources
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This post shows you how to build and smoketest a JavaScript shell for Microsoft Windows Vista SUA using the SpiderMonkey 1.8 sources As you are probably aware JavaScript engines such as SpiderMonkey typically do not allow access to the local filesystem for reasons of security. To enable developers to test the scripts from a command line, js includes the load() function which enables you to load one or more JavaScript scripts into the SpiderMonkey engine. However this [...] Recently I was working on a fairly complex JavaScript script relating to floating point conversions for a new Web page. After a while I got tired on trying to debug the problem via a Web browser and decided to see if I could find a JavaScript shell, i.e. a standalone Javascript intrepreter just like Ruby’s irb, [...] |
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