Hi Rick,
I don't know what their plans are, but I can answer one small bit of all those questions: WE doesn't need to "get away from VBScript", because there isn't anything particular that ties it to VBScript. As I understand it, they opted to emphasize VBScript because it's the easiest for most people to learn, and it's easy (using any active scripting language) to get an app up and running. However, the point I'm making is that any language from the active scripting collection is supported as well as any other, and there's nothing forcing you to use a scripting language at all. GW has emphasized you can use any language of your choice, as the API is supported no matter what you choose, in the same way. One other question I see which maybe I can answer to a degree: I have scripted some IE sites by use of the IE DOM directly; and again, for what I did and the way I did it (or have seen it done), any language is as good as any other. All that I know how to do is to analyze the IE DOM looking for particular HTML structures to find the info which is wanted (so for instance you might look for a particular table, and a particular cell within the table, and get the text from within the <TD> element). (so, examining static HTML in otherwords). I hope this encourages you to try to do some programming of apps now, rather than just to keep waiting on that perfect next release that has everything. Chip From: Rick Thomas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: UIA And WE Scripting Model Hi: Are there plans to support either managed or native UIA tools in the gw scripting model?The vbscript model and legacy msaa would not, at first thought support this very well. Also, what about scripting WebPages or sites using internet explorer and working with the dom directly? Is vbscript best for dynamic interactive access using the internet explorer dom to work with html5 and javascript dynamics? On your scripting website the scripting documents have, according to your site, not been updated since 2011 - is this true and have you been working on a completely new, more technically advanced model? If so, will it support Microsoft managed frameworks or might it use the native UIA API and will you be getting away from the limitations of vbscript in favor of a language that wont require wrappers to get at the native or managed UIA APIs? Rick USA
