Don't move Safari pinned tabs

[tedmiston]

In El Capitan, Safari introduced pinned tabs.

Related tools like OneTab do not disturb pinned tabs by default.

If it's possible through the AppleScript API, I'd like to create the same default behavior for Tab Transporter.

[ghost]

From what I can tell, you would need to use GUI scripting to get this done. The Safari dictionary doesn't show a difference between pinned tabs and regular tabs, but when using System Events to see the differences between the elements, you can discern which tabs are pinned and which are not.

Adding that functionality would mean that users of your script would have to enable the script to control the computer (you would want to update your Read Me to walk them through that process).

[tedmiston]

@seesolve It looks like you're correct. The offerings on tab properties in Chrome are much more elaborate: 20 properties (including a pinned boolean) vs 6 in Safari.

I'm wondering about workarounds...

Having do JavaScript to talk to Safari might be convenient, i.e.,

tell application "Safari"
    do JavaScript "alert('foo');" in current tab of front window
end tell

Note that even this call would require something similar — in Safari, you must check Develop > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events, for it to be able to run.

I'm wondering if it is possible to get pinned tab state through JS. Writing a Safari extension to do it wouldn't be my first choice for portability, but I'm open to trying it.

That said, looking through the Safari Extension docs, the API looks about the same as AppleScript. I didn't find a pinned property in The Windows and Tabs API. Particularly, I looked at the SafariBrowserTab or SafariBrowserWindow.

[ghost]

Don't know much about Safari extensions...