On 2009-Feb-20, at 4:27 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> It seems to me the natural way to do this right would be to have any >> easy way of plugins that can be used either in the web group or can >> be >> accessed by AppleScript, which then allows for easy scripts to be >> written for Safari or Firefox or your web browser of choice. > > But indeed, BD does not live "inside" your browser. And I don't think > BD should somehow go inside. The best I could think of would be some > scripting support to tell BD to import from some URL. > > It's not completely clear to me what part of the process you'd want BD > to perform.
You're right that BibDesk doesn't live inside the browser, nor should it. The connection to the browser should/could just be an AppleScript hook inside BibDesk that says for "import from URL"; you give that a URL and then BibDesk goes off and does whatever it would need to import from that URL, just as if it got the same URL from the web group. It would be up to other applications to figure out how to trigger that "import from URL" hook. If I wanted to do it in Safari, I could write a simple AppleScript that, when activated, takes the URL of the front window and calls BibDesk with that. Douglas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
