Re: ical todo notes
Re: ical todo notes
- Subject: Re: ical todo notes
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:29:52 -0600
On 11/24/03 9:14 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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And so on. It's all booby-trapped. You can find workarounds and certain
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exclusive methods that work, but what a mess. Only people who don't know
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AppleScript could come up with stuff like this. Why are they working for
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Apple? It's like OS 10.0.0's AppleScript all over again.
Worse. At least there was a lot of warning that AppleScript in 10.0 was
kinda dorked.
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I'm very pleased with the progress made by Address Book, which now must be
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the model iApp. Everything works well there, aside from a pretty trivial bug
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(with anniversary). Why can't they learn anything with the other apps? iCal
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is a minefield of badly-implemented AppleScript - shoddy work. If Cocoa were
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treated this way no one would be using OS X.
Because people, including iApp engineers are drinking the KoKoa Kool-Aid
that says "Oh, just enable the proper frameworks, hit a button, click your
heels three times, and magically get AppleScript."
The problem is, there is a WORLD of difference between a checkbox filler and
a proper implementation of AppleScript. From what I can tell, the
AppleScript implementation is still a great way to tell Carbon from Cocoa.
Cocoa's getting better, but the fact is, a good AppleScript implementation
is NOT just a switch hit. It takes a LOT of testing. From what I've seen,
Adobe and MS are the only companies that explicitly test AppleScript in
their new versions, and that includes Apple. I have yet to even hear rumors
of an AppleScript test programme for any applications from Apple.
Yo follks, if anyone tell you that you don't need to test your scripting at
LEAST as much as the rest of your application, they're lying to you.
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Let's hope they fix it for iCal 2.0. I imagine they will. If anyone ever
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finds a v1.0 of any Apple app, aside from Script Editor made by the
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AppleScript team themselves, properly implemented, I'll personally send them
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a prize.
I have a bottle of Grey Goose *per person* for the first Pro Application
that implements AppleScript correctly. Hell, even half-assed.
I bet Grey Goose goes out of business before you see a Pro Application
supporting AppleScript. After all, why should they support Apple
technologies.
john
--
Some days, you just have to pimp - slap people with the hard, cold glove of
reality.
john c welch
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