Re: applescript url
Re: applescript url
- Subject: Re: applescript url
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:33:57 -0700
On 6/29/03 11:00 PM, "Gary Lists" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Well, love is a many splendored thing, but this thing that you love is not
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new. You could have been loving it for years already -- as many likely
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have.
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AppleScript is "built in" and that is all you need. Apple has only taken
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the one additional step of creating some internal handler -- rather than you
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simply writing your own -- to do something with some text.
Of course I could have done this a long time ago using Peter Bunn's method
(well, not too long ago since SE wasn't scriptable), but for this particular
application of the method that wouldn't be very useful. Servers aren't going
to start providing content until there are enough clients to make it worth
their while. Which gets back to the point about Script Debugger, Smile, et
al users being able to participate. More clients = more content. Maybe
you're thinking these applescript urls are about something bigger than I do;
I just see them as a way for websites to provide scripts for users.
On the other hand, it's not that big a deal, even for that niche. People
want to see scripts before they get them, and if you're going to have the
full text of the script embedded in a page anyway, why not just format and
display it? Not too hard to copy and paste. Tim says Script Debugger can
export to HTML, and I noticed that someone posted a script at
macscripter.net to do the same from SE 2. That doesn't dampen my enthusiasm
for new AppleScript doodads from Apple.
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I am not attempting to antagonize (by any means) or even to diminish the
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"neatness" of it all. But, to even begin to pretend that it is "new" is
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patently (and verifiably) false (not by you, I mean by Apple.)
Apple's not competing with Peter here. They've been defining their own url
protocols for some time, c.f., AppleTalk, AFP, iCal, iTunes. The only way
Peter's work is related to the new applescript:// url protocol is that they
both fall under the broad category of AppleScript.
Incidentally, I have a copy of Missing Link, having corresponded with its
author in the past when I had a project with which I thought it could help
me.
Mike
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