Netscape Navigator 6
Netscape Navigator 6
- Subject: Netscape Navigator 6
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:10:14 -0500
Yesterday, Netscape released Navigator 6.0 in final form.
Among other accomplishments, it breaks The AppleScript Sourcebook's frames
version. If you use Navigator 6.0, for the time being you should bookmark
this backdoor URL to the frameless version of The AppleScript Sourcebook:
<
http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com/home.html>.
On the AppleScript front:
Its dictionary finally eliminates the old, poorly-designed and
poorly-implemented Spyglass (Mosaic) AppleScript suite that has existed in
Navigator from the beginning (complete with the programmer's puzzled
comments asking how to implement AppleScript). In its place, it appears to
implement an all-new AppleScript dictionary that includes almost the entire
required and standard suites together with some minor extensions to the
standard objects. (I say "appears to implement" with some trepidation; my
few initial tests indicate that it doesn't actually work.) It also appears
to implement some of the old special web commands like GetURL. It does not
implement the text suite. I am sorry to say that it eliminates the Register
Protocol command, so Flypaper and lookalikes will no longer work.
It appears to implement one particularly interesting command: Do JavaScript.
In theory, this permits an AppleScript user to exercise great control over
the browser and the browsing experience. In general, AppleScript users
prefer genuine AppleScript implementations over "do script" shortcuts to an
application's proprietary, internal scripting language. However, JavaScript
is a sort of open-standard scripting language, and a Do JavaScript command
therefore holds out some promise of powerful cross-browser scripting.
-
Bill Cheeseman, Quechee, Vermont <
mailto:email@hidden>
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