Apple product reviews, information about new iPhone and iPad applications and Apple product updates and add-ons.
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Apple has a new microsite touting HTML5 standards, yet when you hit the site in a browser other than Safari and try to run a sample you get: Erm. Hmm. Faruk has it right: The point isn’t that all of the examples should work in all browsers, but that it most of them actually do…. Read the rest…
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Category: Apple
Apple Insider has a strong headline: Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia that gets you clicking. You quickly learn that Gianduia is: Not like Flash at all (e.g. not a plugin that brings a new development model to a rectangle in a browser) Old news (shown “last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference)”) Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Category: Apple
We heard a little about PastryKit, a cool library from Apple that makes great iPhone apps using the Web. Now we see the mysterious AdLib which seems to be similar but gives you goodness on the iPad instead. Jim Hoskins checked it out: Curiosity got the best of me, so I loaded the page in Read the rest…
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Category: Apple
I am sure that a fair few of you have your iPad order honing in from China (I got a WiFi one and use Mobile Hotspot when I need to use the carrier networks. Some fun deals right now ;). As the Quake demo shows, you can do a lot with the Web, and we Read the rest…
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Inspired by the CSS Opera Logo (that works in a few browsers if you fix the -vendor-* CSS-ness) we now have Safari in Safari. Being a web developer who works on a Mac, I’ve noticed that Apple’s implementation of CSS3 to Webkit and Safari always felt like they were extending OS X GUI elements to Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Category: Apple, Editorial
, Flash
, iPhone
Most of the thinking on iPad’s exclusion of Flash has been focused on battery life, performance, stability, or control of the application market, but here’s a Flash developer who’s thinking differently. Morgan Adams argues it’s all about the mouseover, and he raises a point that is just as relevant to rich Javascript apps. Many (if Read the rest…
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Category: Appcelerator, Apple
Appcelerator has published an interesting study on the Apple Tablet. You know, the iPhone OS based one that we will Steve will show us on Wednesday. The study asks some interesting questions revolving around the development side of the tablet. Are developers going to develop for it? What are they looking for? What are they Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Category: Apple, JavaScript
javascript < view plain text > albumHelper.play = function (){ var t = bookletController.buildPlaylist(appData.songs); t.play(); if (window.iTunes.platform == "Windows" || window.iTunes.platform == "Mac" || window.iTunes.platform == "Emulator") { TKNavigationController.sharedNavigation.pushController(visualizerController); What’s that? The code from above is something you would see in an iTunes Extras experience. When Ben showed me a (admittedly poor) Star Trek iTunes Read the rest…
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Category: Apple, Showcase
, Video
Apple has a fair amount of video on their site, and now you will find it displayed via <video> As always, it looks very nice indeed. The video controls look very much like the new Quicktime X: All via the code: Of course, for all the deets on video, check out brother Mark.
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Category: Apple, JavaScript
Gus Mueller has announced JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript that uses JavaScript and the JSCocoa bridge, and an Objective-J-like language alternative to hide the ugly_methods_when_needed. Here is Gus: JSTalk’s goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon. I know, I know. It’s a lofty, crazy goal. But someone has Read the rest…
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Category: Apple, CSS
, Standards
, SVG
, W3C
On Friday, the SVG and CSS working groups of the W3C published the first working drafts of Apple’s proposed graphics and styling extensions: The CSS and SVG Working Groups delivered today five new specifications for public review, aimed at enabling more compelling content creation with open Web technologies. The five drafts are: SVG Transforms 1.0, Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Category: Apple, Browsers
, WebKit
Great news for Web developers and users, Safari 4 has a public beta, and it comes with some nice features such as: tabs on top and top sites (a la Chrome), full page zoom, history view, and ARIA Support. The Twitter thumbnail is interesting But, what about the engine? Here are some of the features Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
I had an Automator script that would go out and grab WebKit nightlies for me. NightShift does the deed for you on the Mac. But, no more. WebKit joins Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers in auto updating channels of development. Great stuff. Now we can live on the edge, and report bugs as they occur. Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
As soon as I heard about the new iWork.com site launched yesterday, I knew I wanted to know more about how it was made. iWork.com is a web-based way to share and collaborate over your iWork documents. I searched around the blogosphere seeing if anyone knew any technical details, but didn’t find anything, so I Read the rest…
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Category: Apple
Robert Tomsick has been playing with Sandboxed Safari, a project that aims to let you use the Leopard sandbox feature with the browser, via a little launcher: When Leopard was released, one of its big selling points was its “sandbox” feature. This garnered a fair bit of attention, as sandboxing is a fairly new feature Read the rest…
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Category: Apple, Framework
, JavaScript
The Cappucinno team has a new release, 0.6 that include: New language addition to Objective-J: The @accessors keyword to eliminate the boiler plate code of writing setters and getters. Read more about it here. Support for more classes like CPTimer. Performance improvements all around, but especially in Objective-J thanks to a major rewrite of the Read the rest…
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