Hey, Roomie!
Peter Jaros - Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 02:54 PMWell, it’s about time I spoke up. Greetings from beautiful Upstate New York. My name’s Peter, and I’m the other guy. Google couldn’t give Mozilla quite enough Summer of Code slots for more than one Camino position, which went to Jeff, but thanks to the hard work of Sam, Pink, and I’m-not-even-sure-who-else, Mozilla and the Camino Project are funding my project anyhow. What is that project? You might well ask.
I’ll be bringing AppleScript support—real, honest to God scripting—to Camino. Scripting support bugs have been waiting around on Bugzilla since at least 2002, and this summer I intend to deal with most of them.
The first part of this project is Windows & Tabs. Scripts will be able to interact with browser windows and the tabs they contain, getting their URLs and titles and setting their URLs as well. (Hopefully I’ll find a way to do things like “make new browser window”, but the “make” command is apparently full of bugs on Apple’s end. We’ll see.) The main development for W&T is over as of yesterday, and as of today the new code is waiting for its second review. You can follow along at home if you like.
Next will be Bookmarks & History. Stay tuned.
Frank 'viperteq' Young says:
June 29th, 2007 at 3:11 amMan, I REALLY wish you would’ve posted this earlier in the month....I would’ve wrote in to ask if you could write some AppleScripty goodyness that will make Camino’s tabs draggable. Other than that other browser (:cough: Opera :cough:), Camino is the only browser that doesn’t have draggable tabs. I’ve become a bit spoiled by Firefox and the new Safari beta… whenever I launch a flurry of tabs, I try to rearrange my tabs into a better order then get angry when I can’t...ooops, i forgot I was using Camino, lol!!!!! 
marc says:
June 30th, 2007 at 5:52 amIt may be asking too much, I don’t s’pose there’s any chance that the ‘holy grail’ of Recordability is in scope at all? : )
Peter Jaros says:
June 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm@Frank: You’re a year late, my friend. Desmond Elliott wrote the code for Summer of Code last year, and it’s almost ready for prime time. Look for it soon in a Camino near you!
@Marc: No, not really. Recordability is a whole lot harder than scriptability, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen any app besides the Finder do it usefully. It was a neat idea, but it’s so hard to do well I’m surprised Apple hasn’t deprecated it by now. Instead, my goal is to make the Camino dictionary so simple it’ll be easier just to write the code yourself.
marc nothrop says:
July 1st, 2007 at 6:35 amPeter, yeah, ‘Recordability’ IS the hard bit, it’s also a very interesting part of AppleScript… pity that it’s never taken off.
It’s great that you plan to make the Dictionary as simple as possible, and of course that is a fantastic addition—I was just being extremely optimistic!
Smokey Ardisson says:
June 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI can’t wait! :D