On 2007-12-30, at 7:08 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2007, at 7:59 AM, P Kishor wrote: > >> I am, slowly, slowly, graduating from using BD just as a basic >> library, and learning all manner of delightful little features in it. >> While doing so, I came across Alex Montgomery's ISBN lookup scripts. >> My suggestion -- they are so good and useful that either their >> functionality be included in the core application so users >> immediately >> know of their existence or the scripts be bundled with the >> application's installer (I know there is no installer right now, but >> if there were one) that would put them in the requisite places. > > This is a support hassle that we probably won't get into. I know > there are a lot of cool scripts out there, but if we ship them, we > have to support them.
These scripts are pretty hacked together as well (the WorldCat part of them stopped working recently, it's a screen-scraper). I try to keep them up, but they tend to break when the sites change. One script that might be incorporated into BibDesk as core functionality would be my OpenURL script; it's pretty simple and is a generally supported protocol. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
