Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 11:10:10 +1000
Hi all,
After years of waiting, we get yet-another-way-of-doing-things-poorly.
1990ish, we get AppleScript! Yay. It is cool.
For 10 years, basically nothing happens.
2000: We still have Applescript on OS X, but it hasn't changed in a decade
still has far too few built in functions and no interface elements. People
talk about AppleScript 2.0
2003ish: Applescript has not changed much, and instead of Applescript 2 we
get Applescript studio (Xcode with applescript) which no one uses because it
has an insane learning curve and the applescript element is irrelevant: just
write cocoa apps.
2005: Still no changes to Applescript like people want, but instead we get
automator, which no one will use.
Just give us AppleScript with a stripped down interface builder (basically
the 24U Osax: buy it for $30k for god's sake) and then access the php
function library (open source) and wrap it all in AppleScript.
Bingo. We have what we want. How hard is that? In a decade?
1. Kill AS Studio
2. Port the php library into AppleScript
3. Give an AppleScript interface to unix's commands (like Ed Lai did in
what, a few weeks? 4 years ago?)
4. Release a simple webkit editor to allow user interfaces to be made in
dhtml/css/ using the proven hypercard metaphor (pages = cards, click on
objects to embed scripts in them).
5. Let everybody know that AppleScript is the way to go, and keep on making
it better.
tim
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