Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:40:30 -0300
At 11:28 AM -0700 6/12/07, Philip Aker wrote:
>On 2007-06-12, at 10:37:31, Bill Briggs wrote:
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>>>>I also note that there is still no busy status indicator for a loading window, which is rather annoying. It would be exceedingly useful.
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>>>I'm just doing the download now. Are you talking about what is displayed in the Status bar or something else?
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>>No, I mean a busy status that you can get with a script. In old versions of Netscape you could request the busy status of a window and it would return a 0, 1, or 2, depending whether or not the window was done loading (0), loading but can be interrupted with a new load request (1), loading and can't be interrupted (2).
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>I see. It's certainly possible for Safari to have this because status notification, being one of the basic informational items, is available in both the Carbon and Cocoa interfaces with WebKit. I wonder if it's possible to query Safari for it from a plugin.
Quite likely. I'll bet that implementing it would take someone at Apple about five minutes, including the documentation in the Dictionary. It really is one of the more useful things when trying to automate things and the web browser is involved.
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