Why Compare?
AppleScript is now part of Apple's OS strategy. This is a really good thing because it focuses people on the power of Macintosh scripting, and it's a good time to tell the story of the Mac version of Frontier, as it relates to AppleScript.There's a common misunderstanding that Frontier and AppleScript are equivalent products. They are not, they're actually like night and day. Frontier is a great scripting environment and AppleScript is a great scripting language.
Frontier does a wonderful job of hosting AppleScripts, and is also an excellent development tool for AppleScript, and is compatible with many of the other tools developed for people who build on AppleScript.
Put more concisely, Frontier is a kernel of features that are useful to script writers in any Mac scripting language and AppleScript is a Mac scripting language.
But we have a more famous competitor, Apple, that would like you to believe that their product is in every way equivalent to Frontier. I don't blame them. If all I had was AppleScript, I'd try to divert the attention from the competition too!
But we're not so humble. We want you to know why Frontier is great, and that if you're developing networked publishing systems on the Mac OS without using Frontier, you're working too hard, missing a lot of power, and your scripts are running too slowly.
Over the next few days I want to build out our feature comparison chart, so that as Apple sends out the new AppleScript message, we'll be able to focus people's attention on the extra kick you get scripting the Mac OS and compatible apps with Frontier.
So, if you have favorite differentiating features of Frontier that you don't see listed on the chart, send me email at dave@scripting.com and I'll try to get all of them listed.
Dave Winer
May 11, 1998
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