Re: applescript url
Re: applescript url
- Subject: Re: applescript url
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 04:50:05 -0400
On or about 6/30/03 3:36 AM, Joseph Weaks wrote:
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On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 01:00 AM, Gary Lists 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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Why so upset, Gary? I experience you as having an aversion to things new.
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*ahem*
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> MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
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;)
:) Pretty good, Joe. I chuckled. [1]
For what it's worth, I am most certainly not upset.
I didn't mean to give that impression.
On or about 6/30/03 3:33 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
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Maybe
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you're thinking these applescript urls are about something bigger than I do;
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I just see them as a way for websites to provide scripts for users.
Actually, Michael, I think my position would be the opposite: I see it as
much less.
It is a nice feature to just be able to click a link and get some text into
an editor of any sort. Of course, copy/paste seems to work just fine. But
hey, I'm all for a single click instead of a few. Especially because I'm on
a MacPlus, so the mouse is a little squeaky.
It's good that everyone can now "agree" to go ahead and just use the obvious
"applescript://" string of letters as opposed to a scattered assortment of
others. (Probably if anybody had used that one before, they'd now be in
court. ;)
Other than that, it is very useful -- but recycled -- work.
And yes, I suppose I am a tiny bit annoyed "at Apple" coming off, all these
years later, with this "special" and "new" angle [2]. It's just marketing
(that's okay), but we shouldn't diminish the work of those other authors who
have put countless hours into their work. JJ's excellent list of URLs is a
great list to have. Thanks JJ.
And Tim was dead on earlier: Apple should be working on real
problems...like having to pull the editor beta off their site. Oops!
--
Gary
MacOS 6.1 / "6 for Kicks"
[1]
Hey, Joe, as for resisting "new" things, I remember once, a few years ago,
maybe here or maybe in the Entourage list, telling Paul B. that I still
thought System 7 the single most important development for dictating the
course of MacOS. I might still argue that point, actually. I like to think
of myself as nostalgic rather than resistant :)
[2]
From: Sal Soghoian <email@hidden>
To: xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Special Feature of the New Script Editor
Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2003, 11:13 AM
We've included a new feature in the latest version of the Script Editor
beta that should make providing scripts and code snippets to users
much, much, much easier.
<[URL link to the SE beta removed by Gary]>
I suggest trying it out for a while before alerting the scripting
community to its existence. Let me know if you encounter problems.
Sal
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