Old-style Frontier usage in OS X world

[Samuel Reynolds]

At 2003-04-09 02:59 PM -0500, you wrote:
>I too still use Frontier in this way, and for even more mundane tasks
>which I could use Applescript for, but don't want to. I like the
>Frontier scripting environment better, and have been using it for these
>tasks since it was free. I wish there were a version of Frontier which
>just did these tasks, at a discount -- it's an expensive tool if one is
>just doing scripting jobs. I keep thinking that I'll switch to
>Applescript, but am too invested in Frontier.
>
>Nick Cahill

It's called Radio Userland. $39 is a pretty good discount
compared to $899.

RU doesn't have mainResponder; it does include all the
older static site building tools and scripts (i.e., the
website framework, tcp, etc.), and may fix a few bugs.
The associated menu commands are harder to find; they're
in a submenu at Tools->Static Sites. But they're the
same commands, with the same keyboard shortcuts.

I just built 2 new sites, including the 3rd party (i.e.,
my) HtmlImage and XFile suites, without a glitch.

FWIW, I don't see why any pre-7.0 Frontier suite or
script wouldn't work just as in earlier Frontier versions,
unless it makes use of mainResponder. If you take advantage
of newer builtins in Frontier, they are probably there,
as well.

- Sam