Re: JavaScript as "system-level library"
Re: JavaScript as "system-level library"
- Subject: Re: JavaScript as "system-level library"
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:41:10 -0400
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:20:19 -0700
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From: Bill Hoffman <email@hidden>
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Subject: JavaScript as "system-level library"
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I saw this today in a Jaguar reveiw column on macslash.com:
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"JavaScript, after all, is a direct descendent of NewtonScript, and
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coincidentally is included as a system-level library in every shipping
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copy of Jaguar. "
??? NewtonScript ??? I have never heard this before.
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I know that Apple recently acquired a JavaScript implementation from a
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third-party and has incorporated it as a framework in the OS.
Sounds good. If I can ever bring myself to use OS X again, I'll look
into it.
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If anyone could shed some light on this and what it really means I'd be
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grateful. And the obvious dumb question is, I guess, does this point in
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any way toward a possible integration of JavaScript and Apple Events
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and system-level scripting as an Apple-provided scripting component?
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What a nice thing that would be ... (nothing against JS OSA, which I
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really like).
I also really like JS OSA, and I think it would be a shame if Mark's
brilliant scripting componet had to start competing with an Apple
equivalent. Mark listens and takes care of his user base. :)
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