Re: Scripting Safari's Preferences window
Re: Scripting Safari's Preferences window
- Subject: Re: Scripting Safari's Preferences window
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:30:53 -0700
On 7/16/03 8:35 AM, "Nigel Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
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But I'm afraid that the lack of something as simple as an AppleScript way to
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get the short or long name of the current user, and Apple's recommendation
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to use 'do shell script "whoami"', speaks volumes.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't speak volumes. I wonder if this kind of reasoning
is really activism masked as true belief? Like, maybe if I claim that
AppleScript is dead if Apple doesn't implement my pet peeve, that'll light a
fire under them.
If you really think AppleScript is on the way out, then give the clear,
inarguable signal you expect to see from Apple that will prove your fears
right. Will Apple stop improving, for example, iTune's, Mail, and the
Finder's dictionary? Will Apple suddenly drop AS support in Xcode? Will
Apple stop developing the AS Cocoa frameworks? Will Apple make a public
announcement that they are no longer supporting AppleScript altogether?
The various pieces that make up Apple's aggregate support of AppleScript can
never measure up to some perfect standard that some folks seem to have, but
that doesn't mean AS is on the wane.
Mike
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