Don
You said the obvious <grin>!! Unless GW starts planning freequent patches
and updates, and unless someone buries their head in the sand, it would be
almost impossible to miss for an extended period of time anything of
serious importance relative to WE updates.
Of course, part of the reason in developing such scripts is to demonstrate
to scripters things that they can accomplish via this technique.
Seeds could be planted for notices of things of far greater frequency.
As an example, let's say you want notices of online conferences. Well, a
scripter could develop such a script and those running the script might be
automatically reminded that this or that online chat, presentation begins
at 8 pm this evening and perhaps even be taken directly to the site.
Practically speaking, I am much more curious as to what scripters can
develop relative to making programs more user friendly or simplifying
tasks in those programs. To this point, we have seen little in this area
other than the work Jeff Bishop has done with Winamp and a few other
examples that don't immediately come to mind.
But before you run, you have to crawl and then walk.
Right now, we are in the crawling phsase where individuals are flexing
their muscles marveling at the technology, seeing what might be done,
playing with it, and all the rest.
As this knowledge builds, we will ultimately see far greater things than
we could ever imagine; and I believe that skilled scripters might even be
able to pick up a nice 2nd income selling truly useful and elaborate
scripts.
But before this can occur, there is that learning and experimentation
curve.
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Mike
If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.
Dwight L. Moody
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