Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:55:21 -0800
On 2008-12-10, at 16:27:44, Chris Page wrote: i.e., even with “associate … with” it would be best to avoid placing things inside tell blocks unnecessarily.
Ok and yes, but my intent is to solve AppleScript's symbol addressing problem such that calls to other terminology providers …
Yes, I understood what you were suggesting,
Ok, that was my hope.
Binding identifiers as above would imply a URI (somewhat similar to XML namespaces) with the default items being the pre-loaded providers on the local machine. With an eye to even greater usefulness sometime in the future (e.g. iPhone), it might be possible to devise a load-and-bind form:
That's interesting, though it would have to require user interaction to authorize, since it's loading executable code from across the Internet. Would it still be useful if it required interactive authentication to run that script?
Might be real good for shareware writers who wanted to have nag boxes supplied automatically :-)
More seriously, I think it would be viable because there could be options similar to Keychain (allow once, always allow) and the use of a URL as both a unique identifier and the code location is very practical. I guess that would mean another rip from XML though so that a space delimited list could take care of both local and remote addresses:
Furthermore, if a niche for osaxen could be attained at the App Store, then I think ones located there could be marked as safe.
From a security perspective, I think we might be better off requiring people to download and install that OSAX as they do today.
Security, both for Apple and users is becoming a major bother. I really hope someone can see a way to make code signing easy and cheap so we don't have to ok every little tidbit downloaded from the internet.
Philip Aker
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