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Panther on Track for September

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Microsoft-Watch reports that Panther is still on track for a September release.

According to the report, initial plans placed Panther "gold master" in late August with delivery in mid-September. This appears to have been pushed slightly back with "gold master" planned for early September, with a full release within that month.

Development on Panther has continued at a steady pace since WWDC, with a number of new versions becoming available to developers. Most recent reports have hinted that the operating system is approaching its finished form.
 
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I hope (wish) MAIL supports HTML email

I really hope that Panther's version of Mail supports the composition of HTML email and not just Rich Text.

I KNOW MAIL CAN READ HTML BUT IT CANNOT COMPOSE IN HTML!!

Is it just me or can Apple's implementation of Rich Text in Mail only be read in Mail and nothing else?!?

It just looks like plain text in Outlook...


PLEASE GIVE ME HTML EMAIL!!!


:mad:
 
final cut express deal

hmm maybe i can get my new mac with final cut express for 99 AND! panther installed.

awesome!!!
 
Panther's mail.app is based on the safari HTML render engine, so it will display HTML files the same as they look in Safari (which, usually is pretty good, save for current build bugs.)
 
If you're an editor now, shouldn't you be able to have an avatar? :) And yes, I do hope to get a new PowerBook within the next month with both Panther preinstalled *and* the $99 FCE deal--how cool would that be?
 
SUH-WEET! At first I was bummed to find out that waiting a month to order my dual 2.0 G5 meant my shipping date slipped from August to Oct. 3. But I'll gladly wait the extra month to have Panther included with my G5, whether or not it will be offered as a "$20 up-to-date" option for new G5 purchasers.
 
Re: Re: HTML EMAIL

Originally posted by DanUk2003
Yes, Mail DISPLAYS HTML email but it cannot COMPOSE HTML EMAIL!!

that's what i meant
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I agree! That's the one thing that keeps me from using Mail right now, the fact that I can't compose/send HTML e-mail to my Outlook using clients. I do hope that this is a new feature too!
 
I've been using Panther exclusively since the first version was seeded on the ADC website, I don't think we're anywhere near done yet. I can't even click reply in Mail without the program window just disappearing.
 
Doubtful

I seriously doubt it'll ship by September. It's nowhere near stable enough for release.
 
That's great...reminds me of the keynote where Steve showed the video clip of a Panther stalking in the jungle, then cut out to that lazy old bull or whatever it was to satire Longhorn. :D
 
HTML IS NOT GOOD?!?!?!??!?!

I'm sorry?

You think a world without HTML is good?

Ok, then if that were the case, you wouldnt't be looking at the front-end of most web sites now would you...


:D
 
Re: HTML IS NOT GOOD?!?!?!??!?!

Originally posted by DanUk2003
I'm sorry?

You think a world without HTML is good?

Ok, then if that were the case, you wouldnt't be looking at the front-end of most web sites now would you...
:D
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HTML for web--good.
HTML for mail...particularly for email lists--bad.

Sorry, but a lot of the HTML just isn't necessary for email. I'm on a lot of lists and I note some digests are 90% HTML coding...which makes it difficult to get to the meat of messages.
 
Re: Doubtful

Originally posted by gallenx
I seriously doubt it'll ship by September. It's nowhere near stable enough for release.
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Thats arguable. At this time its not stable enough...but we are talking 3 weeks time. The latest build has not kernel panicked on me yet and the major finder bugs have disappeared. I think Apple could quite easily finish off the paint work in 3 weeks.

As for XCode, well thats a different story.
 
Longhorn

That was an actual longhorn bull.

Not *the* extinct longhorn species that used to roam texas, but the breed of texas cattle that was bred between regular cattle and the remaining longhorns...

The original longhorns had horns almost twice as long.

FYI.

Oh, and I doubt it will ship in September. It may be announced at the Apple Expo in Paris. I don't think Apple will seed another version. It's too close to release.

In fact, the seeded version could have been slightly older, and thus more development may have been done than just what time since it was released. Who knows what that timeline is. So, it *could* be ready by September, however, I won't get my hopes up.

Jaedreth
 
has there been an announcement of any deal for g5 purchasers where they'll get panther for 20 bucks or something? it would suck for G5's to be shipping in bulk in Sep and then a week or 2 later panther comes out for an additional 129...
 
I definitely want Apple to get all the kinks out of Panther before releasing it, but if they are able to do it by September, then more power to them. I am just really excited over Panther coming out.
 
Re: HTML IS NOT GOOD?!?!?!??!?!

Originally posted by DanUk2003
I'm sorry?

You think a world without HTML is good?

Ok, then if that were the case, you wouldnt't be looking at the front-end of most web sites now would you...


:D
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On average an HTML Mail is 500% bigger than a text mail. What does it add? You don't need big fonts, colours, graphics in an email...

If you do, send an occasional PDF.
 
PowerBook Panthers

By the way, it usually takes Apple a while to re-tool production line with a new OS version. So I wouldn't expect PowerBooks to come with Pather on them unless they ship at least a month after Panther. Since Panther's release date isn't set inside Apple, I doubt they would wait more, just so that Panther could be on the PowerBooks. Now if Panther were planned to ship Oct 1st, and the PowerBooks Nov. 1st, then yes, we'd see Panther on the PowerBooks.

I'm thinking the updates for the powerbooks will be sooner, not later.

Jaedreth
 
HTML mail is 100% Pure Evil!

I totally hope Mail does not allow the composition of HTML...for that matter I hope they take away stylized text.

Email should be plain text and definable by the recipient.

For full explanation as to why, see:
http://kevinJedwards.com/HTMLemail.html

Also, I could see Panther shipping in September. I could've sworn I heard that as the original ship timeframe. I'm really looking forward to it!
 
Re: Re: HTML IS NOT GOOD?!?!?!??!?!

Originally posted by Blackcat
On average an HTML Mail is 500% bigger than a text mail. What does it add? You don't need big fonts, colours, graphics in an email...

If you do, send an occasional PDF.
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I don't like HTML. Or rather, it's nice to see all the pictures in those spam emails from companies, but it takes forever to download even on a broadband connection. Just seems like too much information to shove down the pipe in an email. A well designed text message with web page pointers seems much more efficient and appropriate for an email.
 
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