Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
- Subject: Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:23:03 +1000
"John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
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At this point, *Microsoft* is better about AppleScript on it's Mac products
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than Apple is...which is a point I should have added to my workingmac.com
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article.
All of this thread just baffles me. Scriptable power is dangerous and bad,
but Microsoft is better than Apple for having more of it (as long as you
don't count two out of the three big apps in Office (Word, where AppleScript
crashes the app, and PowerPoint which has no scripting)).
What is the point of this thread? Oh yeah, if a user has turned on sendmail,
mail.app can now use it (as can any other scriptable app). And if you then
get an AppleScript that you don't look at before running, it can abuse it?
(as can any script running in any app - say Entourage, or omnigraffle - a
much more likely Trojan).
For my money, that is the power we like on the Mac, or at least it is the
power I like. I like being able to run sendmail, I like being able to
automate actions. Apple ships X locked up like fort Knox - the user then
turns on power until the heat gets too hot. Suggestions that there be a
"safety" control panel where the user (or their net-nanny admin) can set all
these risks on and off are unworkable - who knows what the risks are? Or
will be tomorrow. Leave things the way Apple deliver them (safe, and speedy)
or, like Dennis Leary said: get a helmet.
Sounds to me like mail.app and addressbook are moving rapidly in the right
direction to become real competitors to their competition. (I like
competition too).
Tim
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