Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:44:30 -0500
On Mar 25, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 04:10p -0600 03/24/2004, Peter Bunn didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Beyond that, I always thought it would be cool to go to a home page
(or a
bookmarked page) and have all kinda local functionality.
I guess you have to like browsers. I think they suck, UI-wise.
Give me a real Mac interface with real Mac behaviors. :)
While I can see this kind of thing working I'd have to agree with
Walter on this. I would much rather have a real, honest-to-goodness
application rather than use a web browser as a UI interface. Browsers
can completely duplicate the look of an operating system but what they
can't easily do is to mimic the feel of an operating system. The way
the UI elements interact, how a button clicks, and so on. Even if you
get it completely right on one web browser it will most likely be off
on another, ruining the whole feel of the UI.
This is the whole reason I absolutely refuse to use any kind of web
e-mail. Give me a nice, solid, actual e-mail client so that I can grab
the messages and store them locally. Throw IMAP in there in case I
want to store and access the mail remotely but you sure as hell can bet
that I'm still going to cache messages locally just in case that remote
server's hard drive decides to go down in flames.
Another problem that I see is that not only do you now have to worry
about YOUR code being decent, you also have to worry about any bugs the
browser may have, as well as security issues, cache issues, etc. For
me, each layer of interface that you have to go through just adds to
the potential headaches you can encounter.
Cocoa, XCode, and AppleScript are really extremely easy to use and to
program in. You can actually create a program using AppleScript,
XCode, and Interface Builder in just a couple of lines of simple code.
If you want to make a "launcher" application you would probably be
better served by doing that rather than using a web browser.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't work on this type of project but I
don't personally see the advantages of doing this type of program
through a web browser.
-Ken
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