Re: iWork Pages
Re: iWork Pages
- Subject: Re: iWork Pages
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:33:39 -0400
At 7:22 PM -0700 1/25/05, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Jan 25, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Bill Briggs wrote:
That's a bit strong. But it's safe to say that AppleScript is not
held in high esteem in every group at Apple. Then that is apparent
from the products, isn't it. If there were a mandate from Steve
Jobs, it would change that situation, but I wouldn't hold my breath
waiting for that.
It could be that they felt that implementing Applescript in Pages
would be wasted effort with Automator coming soon in Tiger.
The wasted effort hypothesis is suspect for the reason stated
earlier. "In Cocoa you only need to check the box because the
AppleScript support is built into the frameworks." If it's so easy,
it should be on. But then we all know what a mess those default Cocoa
AppleScript implementations are. Maybe it's an "off is better than
junk" decision.
I would not be surprised if Automator workflows were already
embedded in Pages.
I would be. Being the congenital cynic I am, I've got a dim view of
what automator can do for anyone who actually needs it. For coders
and scripters who don't need it, it may be of some curiousity, but my
first reaction to it is that it will be lame for anyone who can't
already engage in the mental process that you do when you write code.
I'm open to being proved wrong, but I think there are limits to what
you can do to simplify things that require a logical thought process
to implement. I guess we'll all find out.
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