Re: Tell default browser to open a URL
Re: Tell default browser to open a URL
- Subject: Re: Tell default browser to open a URL
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:29:23 -0800
On 12/4/01 9:46 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 12/3/2001 4:12 AM, "Paul F. Henegan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> +event sysogurl; "http://some.url"; with +class errr;
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This does not work for me but this does:
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tell application "Finder" to +event sysogurl; "http://www.gnarlodious.com/";
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with +class errr;
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Is this the way my mail viewer(OE) translates the object enclosures?
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Here is the procedural version:
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tell application "Finder" to [Opt \]event sysogurl[Opt Shift \]
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"http://www.gnarlodious.com/"; with [Opt \]class errr[Opt Shift \]
No, it's the way that this particular mailing list server which the
AppleScript-Users List and the many other Apple User Groups use mangles
characters requiring the option key (characters past the standard 128 ASCII
characters). MacRoman character formatting is different from Windows and
Unix layouts and the server is - believe it or not - not set up for
Macintosh but for one of those others. As far as I understand, it probably
could be fixed, but the people who run the list (Apple, basically) don't
consider it a priority, so they don't do it. We had a huge row about it a
year ago but it made no difference. We were basically told that it's a
minority concern and we should piss off. So that's it - until it changes -
and we just have to put up with it. Lousy, isn't it?
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Paul Berkowitz