Can this be done with Applescript?

Hi, I was wondering if the following can be achieved using Applescript:

I want to have Safari launch jpg images in Photoshop instead of having these images displayed on the browser window. Of course I don't intend for Safari to have this behavior with every image it displays (ie <img> tags) just with images that are accessed via a link, such as <a href="someimage.jpg">Download image</a>. I know this sounds bizarre, but it's a requirement for a web application we're developing here at work.

I hope this is not too confusing, basically, what I want is something similar to launching a .pdf in adobe reader instead of using the built-in pdf plugin in Safari. I know IE5 Mac and Opera can be configured to allow this behaviour with several mime types, but Safari doesn't seem to have that feature... So, can it be done with Applescript? And if so, could someone give me the basics of how it could be done? thanks

 

Well, I was thinking that maybe I could have a script running in the background, waiting for the user to click on a link that has a URL that ends with ".jpg". I don't know if that's possible, but I found a script (Open Linked Images) that could potentially open images in Photoshop, but it would need to be run by the user at the proper time, so it might not be the best idea (unless I can make it run in the background without requiring any user interaction).

I guess if there's no other choice, the client might want for us to do something like that. The problem is that the app was already working under IE5 Mac, which has a feature that lets you associate a .jpg with an application. So the "opening jpegs in Photoshop" feature is already there, and I don't think they'll want to give it up. Do you think writing a plugin like that would take a long time? I've never developed anything for Mac (the app was coded in ASP .NET even though 90% of the users use Macs, and I still can't understand why they didn't use something more Mac-like ), so I guess I'd have to learn some Objective C? thx

 

There aren't (m)any of those where I live. In fact, I'm pretty much the "Mac expert" around here .

Anyway, I'm now able to open image URL's in Photoshop using Applescript. Is there a way to know when the user clicks on a link in Safari? or perhaps a way to execute an Applescript by clicking on a link? (I know it's unlikely, but you never know ) If I could do that then my problem would be solved.

 

Thanks, I've managed to get the image URLs and open them in Photoshop, but I don't think there's a way to call an Applescript from a webpage in Safari. So I decided to check out some docs on webkit plugins and they seem really simple. The samples are only a few lines long, and I'm sure that the plugin I need would be even shorter, but out of a few lines I understood exactly: 0 (Objective-c is a bit strange).

Anyway, I'll do a quick test (according to my theory, all I need to do is call the applescript I already made on the plugin's constructor and voilà!) and if it doesn't work I don't think I'll spend anymore time with this. The most likely scenario is that we'll delay the Safari migration a bit longer.

 

Update

Another reason to love Apple: I opened the WebKitMoviePlugin sample, added 3 lines of code, and now I have a WebKit plugin that launches the Applescript when called by a Javascript function! It was that easy!

Well, in reality, I spent a few hours on this (I had to do some Objective-C research), and I still need to write the plugin from scratch (I'm not using some sample code on my project!), but still, it was much easier than I thought it'd be.