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: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:58:07 +0000
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 12/4/01 1:02 PM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Although partial relief can be had by using:
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> http://files.macscripter.net/ScriptBuilders/ScriptTools/ScriptToEmail.hqx
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You seem to be going over almost exactly the same ground as the famous
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richard23, who came up with both an email decoder for non-ASCII's plus a
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string-to-record handler,
Mmmmm, I hadn't noticed he'd done a string-to-record handler. I do know
he's done one that can coerce any object to string while preserving their
exact appearance (e.g. {1, "bob"} --> "{1, \"bob\"}) which is pretty dashed
cool.
As for our respective email encoders, his was designed to try and
intelligently interpret scripts that were posted with or without prior
formatting, while mine is intended simply to encode problem characters into
a form that can be decoded either automatically (with the same script) or
manually by the user (hence the use of - hopefully - fairly descriptive
"[BLAH]" strings).
Same basic idea, though arrived at separately and with different approaches
to implementation and functionality. Eccentric genius, versus pragmatic
tinkerer? Though as the <ahem>massive success of both our encoders on this
list has demonstrated, even the best of both still can't always accurately
predict good old human nature. :)
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and many, many other clever things, before
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disappearing completely from our lives. You're not the same person, by any
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chance?
Probably not, unless you believe in reincarnation.;)
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(Actually, richard23 seemed to be more amused by
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obfuscation-for-fun's-sake than you are, which is a bit of a relief this
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time around.) You probably would have liked meeting him, I think.
Funnily enough, you're not the first person to have said this.;) But yeah,
sounds like a cool guy.
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Odd how some of the most brilliant contributors here sometimes leave after a
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flash of light: John Delacour, richard23. I hope you'll be around a while,
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has. Maybe I'll begin to understand a bit after a while.
Don't worry, mate: there's not too much brilliance in me. (As I suspect is
going to be demonstrated reeeeal shortly...)
has