Lab Notes

Hello From WWDC

Well, it's difficult to be underwhelmed by a Steve Jobs keynote, but somehow we managed to do so yesterday. Leopard looks great, and Time Machine, Spaces, stacks, the new Finder, et. al. are great new additions to Mac OS X. If he had ended it there, we would have walked away happy. Instead, Steve gave us "one last thing": third party development for iPhone means writing a web app with iPhone-like CSS. We're joining the chorus of disappointed developers on that one.

Last week I wondered what changes would be needed in Elektron to get it ready for Leopard. The answer: not much at all. Apple has been stressing that well-behaved Cocoa applications will pick up Leopard features "for free." We put a lot of work into making Elektron a well-behaved Cocoa application, so things are looking good. Putting Cover Flow in the Finder does mean we're going to need a new high-res icon for the Elektron Settings application, though.