{"id":1735,"date":"2008-06-03T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2008-06-03T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T14:49:41","slug":"applescript-is-broken-in-firefox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/applescript-is-broken-in-firefox-3\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleScript Is Broken in Firefox 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyapps.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/applescript-is-broken-in-firefox-3\/\">Luis de la Rosa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.happyapps.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/applescript-is-broken-in-firefox-3\/\"><p>There&rsquo;s two pieces of data that&rsquo;s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The title portion is broken in Firefox 3. That&rsquo;s a regression from Firefox 2. Except, it isn&rsquo;t officially, since Firefox never officially supported AppleScript. There were just some good programmers who added it in.\n<\/p>\n<p>So what happens when you request the title? It returns random garbage data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve also gotten reports of intermittent problems getting the URL via AppleScript.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis de la Rosa: There&rsquo;s two pieces of data that&rsquo;s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The title portion is broken in Firefox 3. That&rsquo;s a regression from Firefox 2. Except, it isn&rsquo;t officially, since Firefox never officially supported AppleScript. There were just some good programmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}