Re: Mozilla/Firefox dictionary
Re: Mozilla/Firefox dictionary
- Subject: Re: Mozilla/Firefox dictionary
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:52:13 -0500
On 10/10/04 6:15 AM, "Elliotte Harold" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I need to write some scripts for Mozilla and Firefox. However their
> dictionaries appear quite sparse. All I see is get URL, Open URL,
> register URL: and unregister URL. I know Mozilla at least supports more
> than this because I have some old scripts from Mac OS 9 and Mozilla 1.2
> that still work on Mac OS X/Mozilla 1.7. However, when I open up these
> old scripts in the editor I see things like:
>
> the «class curl» of the frontWindow
>
> Hence I surmise that the support is there. It's just the dictionary that
> is broken or not present. This appears to be a known bug in Mozilla. See
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184449
>
> Until the Mozilla Project fixes this, does anyone have a workaround? Is
> there an earlier version of Mozilla known to have a correct and complete
> AppleScript dictionary that I can use to write scripts? Or is there any
> documentation anywhere for writing AppleScripts that interface with
> Mozilla? Thanks in advance.
YES!!! I have the oldest AppleScript bug in Mozilla!!
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61356>
Opened 11-28-2000
They seem to be thoroughly ignoring it. If you want a browser with
AppleScript support beyond the bare minmum, I think you're using OmniWeb.
john
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"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
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