Re: iWork Pages
Re: iWork Pages
- Subject: Re: iWork Pages
- From: peter boardman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:48:17 +0000
Johnny AppleScript <email@hidden> said on 2005-01-21, 23:38 (-0700 GMT):
> 30 Supported
> 6 limited or unsupported
> 2 unknown support
> -------------------------
> = ~79% supported = ~11% chance of non-support or limited support ****
A good theoretical score.
Of course, there’s no point in an app being scriptable just for the sake of it. Some apps might be so feature-challenged they cry out to be scriptable, just to be usable. Some are usable enough without being scriptable (eg I use NoteBook and occasionally wish it was scriptable, but it’s still very useful as it is). Others lend themselves to extensive customization and automation through their script interface.
I haven’t seen Pages, so I don’t know which category it falls into. I’ve used AppleWorks for years and have rarely felt the need to write a script for it - even though I’m the sort of person that sometimes spends an hour writing a script to automate a 10 minute job.
I can see some arguments for Apple releasing Pages 1.0 (the public beta? :-)) without scripting support. Perhaps they’re concentrating on getting the basics done well enough to be useful to its intended audience, and hoping to introduce scripting when the application has settled down and the users have identified what they want it to do. Or perhaps it’s all a conspiracy after all.
Pete
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