While I won’t bother displaying it, visits for just the three days from this past Monday, July 25 through today are 45.8% for Intel 10.7 and 44.8% for Intel 10.6. Lion takes the lead.

1. Scripts that use PowerPC helper apps. As has been frequently mentioned elsewhere since mid-June, PowerPC-only applications will not run on OS X 10.7. There are a small number of scripts that use bundled PPC helper apps and I will gradually be rolling out updates for these scripts for use exclusively on Intel machines (running Lion, Snow Leopard, and the rare Intel machine running Leopard). The older PPC versions will still be available via a direct download link from a script’s entry page; they will not be updated with new features and remain as-is. I made this decision based on stats from my traffic logs which indicate that about 3 percent of visitors to this site are on PPC machines (a number that is shrinking rapidly). Everyone else is using Intel.

2. Older script applets and droplets–those written long ago on PowerPC machines–will run on any machine but you may have to open them in AppleScript Editor and re-save them. This was an issue when Snow Leopard was introduced as well. I suspect that if you are regularly using any of those kind of scripts you have already updated them yourself. I will not be updating any of these; indeed, for the most part, I haven’t had to for Snow Leopard and there aren’t that many anyway.

3. Scripts designated as Universal should have no problems (unless they use a older helper app, see 1. above).

4. Scripts at end of life. Many scripts in the Retro Scripts category will be removed. I’d like to keep these old-and-in-the-way scripts posted as long as possible but some of them are just plain obsolete (CDDB Safari Kit, Search WIth Sherlock, Import SoundJam Playlist, and so on). This gives me an opportunity to clear them out.

I can’t test every script and your help will be greatly appreciated. If you experience any problems with my scripts during your transition to Lion don’t hesitate to let me know. Please use email; I can’t keep a record of tweets.

Thanks for visiting and making it a lot of fun. I use iTunes with AppleScripts everyday and can’t believe how geeked-out I still am about it.

Scripts designated as Retro Scripts do not get re-packaged so a few of those will retain the license sheet. But there aren’t nearly a hundred-milliony of those.

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper

…you only need this:

http://dougscripts.com/212

Gee, that’s about half the length now that I see it like that.

The short URL can be found in the script’s entry listed in the “Info” section. And the title of the entry is also a link using its short URL. The permalink for each entry is, of course, still viable, but I hope you’ll use the short URL when possible.

This is a Google Analytics graph (fwiw) of page views to the front page of dougscripts.com over the past month; about 32k or 11.3% of all page views. I usually only look at Mac systems, since I assume that because the site content is Mac-specific visits by Windows users are—with minor exceptions—more “accidental” than intentional, or are robots, spiders, and what have you. Of course, there are probably many accidental Mac hits, too.

PPC visitors continue to disappear (there are slightly more Vista hits than PPC, and the site has nothing to offer Vista users) and Intel visitors continue to slowly migrate to Snow Leopard.

I’m still posting new and updated scripts as universal binary (for both PPC and Intel), but maybe this won’t even be necessary in a year or so.

Anyway, thanks for all the visits and good words over the years. It’s still a lot of fun.

According to Google Analytics, over the past month (July 10 through August 10) 90.53% of Mac visitors have an Intel Mac, 8.73% are on a PPC, and the remainder are characterized as “not set”. (update: I probably should have included originally that this site had 87,347 Mac visitors in that time.)

Further, of the Intel users 92.54% are on Leopard, 4.58% on Tiger, and the remainder either on 10.6 already or “not set”.

So I guess there may not be that much to mull. I’ll keep you posted.