AppleScript Documentation
The main AppleScript page, including a number of example scripts and other resources:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/ AppleScript on Mac OS X from the developer's point of view:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptX/ The AppleScript Language Guide—still the primary official documentation, and an important source of information, even though it often obfuscates more than it explains and is valid only to Version 1.3.7:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/ Incremental release notes and change notes postdating the Language Guide:
AppleScript 1.4 change notes:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1176.html#applescript
AppleScript 1.4.3 change notes:
AppleScript 1.5.5 change notes:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2010.html#applescript
AppleScript 1.6 change notes:
AppleScript 1.7-1.9.2 release notes (at this point Apple seems at last to have recognized the importance of gathering and linking to the release notes from a single location):
A superb detailed historical record of AppleScript changes, maintained by Bill Cheeseman:
http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/applescript.html The
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