revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Sun May 1 22:19:34 EDT 2005


revGoURL is now working. NO idea why it broke, but now it's fine.

Go figure.

On May 1, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> OK, then it must be something here. Thanks for the reality check.
>> I had a TERRIBLE time with the upgrade (mostly my fault) so I   
>> probably clobbered some vital setting.
>>
>
> Your initial reaction is completely understandable given Apple's  
> history  with such things.
>
> Remember GURLGURL?  That was the Apple event ID and class for  
> sending the default browser to any page, local or remote, for many  
> years.
>
> That is, until OS X.  Without even posting a tech note Apple yanked  
> GURLGURL support for local web pages, requiring all developers who  
> had been relying on it to rewrite their code to use the AppleScript  
> "open location..." instead.
>
> That was a hard lesson to learn, but a valueable one: trust nothing  
> in any OS vendor's API, as ultimately everything is subject to  
> change without notice.
>
> By jumping in with a fix as soon as the issue was known, the Rev  
> team pulled off something the Apple team couldn't be bothered  
> with:  revGoURL  continues to support your call to it regardless of  
> which OS version you're calling it from.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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