In a way, they're natural companions in making a case for what's distinctiveness and unique about Macs. Also, if iLife/iWork have some CoreAnimation goodies, it would certainly make sense to show them off at the same event.
For sure. So you say don't count on March for a release date, when would you speculate based on what you've seen?
Are these new features going to extend the release out longer so once they are announced Apple will give developers more time to program or will they release the OS and then talk about how to develop accordingly at WWDC?
For sure. So you say don't count on March for a release date, when would you speculate based on what you've seen?
I've no idea, though May/June seems to me like a *far* more realistic release date than March.
As for iLife, some have speculated that it'll be 10.5-only, others that it'll have some extra features for 10.5 but will still run on 10.4. I suspect the latter, with a release in March, but again, no idea.
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Are these new features going to extend the release out longer so once they are announced Apple will give developers more time to program or will they release the OS and then talk about how to develop accordingly at WWDC?
Developers will probably need to tweak some customized UI elements, but nothing that can't be handled in 60 days or so...
But then in the "Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead" thread you state that you're speculating:
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It's an API that makes creating animation *dramatically* easier, and -- I'm speculating now -- I believe could also allow for certain animations to be much more easily dynamically generated by the OS itself. It's not that it wasn't possible to do this before, exactly, but it's so much easier to do with Core Animation (something like 10x less the code is required) that IMO it's unthinkable that Apple would introduce this and not use it, *especially* when their competition finally has a savvy graphics compositing system and is all blinged out.
But then in the "Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead" thread you state that you're speculating:
I have no idea what Leopard will look like, and whether it'll just be a refreshed UI (but more than simply a new theme) or a refreshed UI with new applications and features that introduce the nascent elements of something much more ambitious and advanced.
However, I'm completely confident that Apple has a new, updated UI in development that makes heavy use of CoreAnimation and that's been withheld from current Leopard seeds -- and will be unveiled in the next few weeks.
I have no direct inside knowledge, but the many, many clues are there, both blatantly open for all to see, and NDA'd (not too hard to find with just a little digging).
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In a way, they're natural companions in making a case for what's distinctiveness and unique about Macs. Also, if iLife/iWork have some CoreAnimation goodies, it would certainly make sense to show them off at the same event.
For sure. So you say don't count on March for a release date, when would you speculate based on what you've seen?
Are these new features going to extend the release out longer so once they are announced Apple will give developers more time to program or will they release the OS and then talk about how to develop accordingly at WWDC?
For sure. So you say don't count on March for a release date, when would you speculate based on what you've seen?
I've no idea, though May/June seems to me like a *far* more realistic release date than March.
As for iLife, some have speculated that it'll be 10.5-only, others that it'll have some extra features for 10.5 but will still run on 10.4. I suspect the latter, with a release in March, but again, no idea.
Are these new features going to extend the release out longer so once they are announced Apple will give developers more time to program or will they release the OS and then talk about how to develop accordingly at WWDC?
Developers will probably need to tweak some customized UI elements, but nothing that can't be handled in 60 days or so...
A new private framework that currently points to a bundle named Aqua. Application resources seem to have been redirected to use CoreUI.
I wonder if the generic nature of the name would suggest replaceable interfaces akin to the window managers that Linux has?
I am.
But then in the "Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead" thread you state that you're speculating:
It's an API that makes creating animation *dramatically* easier, and -- I'm speculating now -- I believe could also allow for certain animations to be much more easily dynamically generated by the OS itself. It's not that it wasn't possible to do this before, exactly, but it's so much easier to do with Core Animation (something like 10x less the code is required) that IMO it's unthinkable that Apple would introduce this and not use it, *especially* when their competition finally has a savvy graphics compositing system and is all blinged out.
But then in the "Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead" thread you state that you're speculating:
I have no idea what Leopard will look like, and whether it'll just be a refreshed UI (but more than simply a new theme) or a refreshed UI with new applications and features that introduce the nascent elements of something much more ambitious and advanced.
However, I'm completely confident that Apple has a new, updated UI in development that makes heavy use of CoreAnimation and that's been withheld from current Leopard seeds -- and will be unveiled in the next few weeks.
I have no direct inside knowledge, but the many, many clues are there, both blatantly open for all to see, and NDA'd (not too hard to find with just a little digging).