Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:41:53 -0600
- Thread-topic: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
On 3/7/06 19:39, "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I do have a copy of it on my PowerBook, only because the university has a
>>> site license for it (I would never have bought it) and I from time to time
>>> have to open an Excel spreadsheet, so I installed the whole suite. But
>>> looking
>>> at the dictionary and seeing commands like "create new mailing label
>>> document" that have a command and what should be an object all in a very
>>> long
>>> command don't really inspire confidence in the way it has been done. I take
>>> it
>>> that you mean it has to satisfy the Javascript OM on Windows, which perverts
>>> it in the AppleScript domain.
>>
>> VBA's object model actually, but yes, that's the reason why. They don't have
>> the luxury or manpower to duplicate both implementations
>
> Yes, VBA. My bad. I've had Javascript on the brain for a couple of weeks for
> another little project. But you know what I meant.
Heh...I figured as much. But someone might have read this and not realized
that, so better safe than misinformed
--
"Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have 'arguments' --
and they ALWAYS WIN THEM."
- 7th most commonly uttered Klingon programmer phrase
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