Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- Subject: Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 16:58:42 -0400
On 10/02/2002 15:28, "Brian J. Geiger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Well, how about *any* scripting in Apple-branded professional
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> applications?
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You know the place to complain about that? In the bug report page for
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the applications you want to be made scriptable. Apple's Applescript
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group obviously wants all Apple applications to be scriptable. Cricket
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and the Mail team seem to be pretty gung-ho about Applescript,
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otherwise it wouldn't be scriptable and Cricket wouldn't spend so much
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time on this mailing list.
I have, and I've complained to the project leads in person. I've no doubt
about how gung ho cricket is. He's shown that here. This is, however, a good
place to sanity check things before I send them to other people.
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The application groups, however, don't have Applescript high on their
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priority lists. They need to. The best way for us, the customers, to
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make that happen is not to tell the Applescript friendly people that we
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want Applescript, because they already know. We need to tell the
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people who don't think Applescript is important. If we can convince
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them that scriptability is more important than anything else they might
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add (and good scriptability, not some lame, half-implemented
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dictionary), then they will add it. Not before.
It also needs to be a part of *every* software product review done by
*anyone* in the media. If MacWorld/MacTech/MacAddict, etc. downgrade a
product from 'freakin' awesome' to 'pretty cool' *solely* for not having a
good AS implementation, or nor not having one at all, that will make a
difference as well.
Unfortunately, I can only directly affect a handful of pubs outside of the
reader level.
But if for every review in MacWorld, they get a couple hundred letters
complaining that the review was useless because of no mention of
scriptability....
john
--
"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
- Italian proverb
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