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Wilde, Ethan

 
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Mac power users have long turned to AppleScript to automate repetitive tasks in apps such as QuarkXPress and FileMaker. But in the past few years, AppleScript has evolved beyond its desktop origins into the second most popular language for CGI development (after Perl). This new focus on the Internet opens a world of possibilities--if you know how to make the most of the latest version of AppleScript.

Whatever your prior scripting experience, AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you adding dynamic features to your Web site and other Internet apps in no time. The book's clear, step-by-step instructions are augmented with sample scripts that you can adapt to your own needs. Want to learn how to use AppleScript to create files and images for your Web site? To manage your mailing list for you? To build a simple custom Web browser? You'll find all this and more in AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide.

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Ethan Wilde bought his first computer, an Apple II, in 1979 after taking a programming class at San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum. The experience changed his life, and Apple computers have been close to Ethan ever since. Now a principal in Mediatrope, an award-winning multimedia company, Ethan has a whole family of Macs to script and care for, when he is not writing books and giving workshops on AppleScripting.

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AppleScript is back in the limelight. A new version of AppleScript, the subject of this book, shows a 10x speed improvement over the AppleScript of the last decade, and also incorporates a host of new features. In addition, AppleScript is to be a part of Rhapsody, and a strong power-user and developers tool for many years to come.

Why all this attention? AppleScript has undergone a rebirth in the last two years. For instance Applescript is the now second most popular language for CGI development after PERL.

This is pretty surprising. Why is it so? Previously a language for automating your Macintosh, AppleScript is now a language for automating the Internet. Using simple third party plug-ins, including Marionet from IncWell DMG Ltd., you can use AppleScript to reach out onto the Internet. For example, AppleScript is used by many graphics professionals to automate their repetitive tasks with Photoshop and QuarkXPress.Using scripts from this book, you can now automate those tasks on the graphics files on your web site. Or use AppleScript to search newsgroups for you, or even write your own simple custom web browser in AppleScript.

In addition, with other easy add-ons you can use AppleScript to control servers and computers from other vendors, including Windows and Windows NT.

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