Re: open location not working
Re: open location not working
- Subject: Re: open location not working
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:17:08 -0700
On Jun 1, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 09:52a -0500 06/01/2004, Christopher Stone didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 14:57 +0100 06/01/2004, Mark Butcher wrought:
I can't get the 'open location' scripting addition to work. It
compiles OK, but nothing happens when I run it.
open location "www.apple.com"
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Hey Mark,
Try giving it a complete url:
open location "http://www.apple.com";
Clearly Apple made a huge mistake in nomenclature. A URL is not a
location.
Trying to dumb down a perfectly valid acronym only results in
confusion.
(Hey Chris N, did someone in Marketing make an executive decision
here?)
I don't know -- that was before my time, and it's cemented now. At
some point, there ought to be a real "URL" class (as opposed to the
half-baked one that exists now) that responds to "open" commands.
Incidentally, "open location" doesn't open the URL ("location") in your
default browser as such; it opens it in the default application for the
URL scheme, which is why the scheme needs to be there in the first
place. For "http", that's your browser, but for, say, "mailto", it's
your mail client.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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