Re: Wikimedia and LilyPond

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:13 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> As one can see in
> <URL:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7355>, LilyPond
> plugins are not considered safe to use in Wikimedia because of Denial of
> Service concerns.
>
> However, a sizable number of contributors could likely be expected to
> actually run LilyPond on their own computer.  So can anybody more
> familiar with HTML and browser technologies figure out what would be
> required to create, say, a Firefox browser plugin that will submit
> content structured as SVG plus source code leading to essentially the
> same results?  If the music processes were run on the system of the
> contributor, the DoS concerns would be addressed.

+1
(i'm not familiar with HTML and browser technologies, sorry... but i
can do testing if someone writes the plugin)

Janek