This post looks pretty definite. Safari for Windows is built using components that implement framework methods in C++, rather than somehow compiling Objective-C on Windows (a la OpenStep).
(via Daring Fireball Linked List, as usual)
Monthly Archives: June 2007
No Cocoa for you!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Two great tastes …
Friday, June 22, 2007
… that taste great together.
Amit Singh interview at Ars Technica.
(This is mainly a reminder to myself to watch this later.)
Carbon and 64-bit
Monday, June 18, 2007
This collection of responses from Apple engineers provides a lot of insight into what exactly constitutes “Carbon” and what APIs won’t be 64-bit in Leopard.
An interesting snippet:
“Q: Carbon isn’t just the UI stuff if I understand things correctly. Maybe I’m confused. Exactly what does Carbon encompass?”
That’s a darn good question (and practically the first question [...]
Now that’s what I call Unix
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
It looks like that come Leopard, what I call Unix really will be Unix, whatever that means. (Look under “UNIX certification”.)
No 64-bit Carbon in Leopard
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/13/64-bit-support-in-leopard-no-carbon-love
I really don’t know close to enough to understand the implications of this, but it sounds pretty serious, at least if you want to build 64-bit applications. From the Infinite Loop article:
Although we can still look forward to 64-bit Cocoa applications in Leopard, this development means that third-party developers, especially those with cross-platform products, will [...]
Cocoa Frameworks in Safari for Windows
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Justin Williams finds some interestingly named dlls in Safari for Windows.
And for the geekier in the group, here’s a listing of all the files in the Safari directory. DLL hell anyone? Notice there’s a CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics and CFNetwork DLL.
New blog title
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
In an effort to better identify what this blog is about and attempt a bit of search engine optimization, I’m changing the title of this blog from “You Sexy Thing” to “You Sexy Thing - Hot Cocoa Programming”.
Hopefully this will help both people searching for [sexy things to say to a man] and those interested [...]
Gaah! Safari madness
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
New rule: No more creating or editing blog posts in Safari 3!
I just lost a bunch of formatting in the last few posts, specifically, p tags around paragraphs were not preserved among other problems. I think I have it all fixed now.
I’ll be submitting a bug to Apple this evening.
Searching in Safari
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
If you haven’t tried the find feature in Safari 3.0, it is wicked cool. Did the old Safari do this? Unfortunately, a bug is making getting a screenshot difficult. You’ll have to try it yourself.
(Update: That’s the “find on this page” feature, not the “search the Internet” feature.)
More on Safari for Windows
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Just a quick follow up to my last post.The Apple-style form elements also appear in web pages, not just the application dialogs. This must have involved a significant development effort on Apple’s part. (I have some experience with web browser development.) I think Apple must really want pages to look identical in all versions of [...]