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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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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