Other then the new iPhone/OS, a new version of Xcode would be a big highlight for me.
I'd love an updated streamlined UI for Xcode and this...
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Safari 5 and Xcode 4 Coming at WWDC
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OOOOOOOOO - Checkmate-Google. lol
They really should've had customizable search to begin with for Safari(as opposed to having to use something like Glims). Even Chrome and IE let you switch it the second you download it.
wow!
i sure hope 10.6.4 comes out and safari 5. chrome has been amazing! i have been using that full time since it's release on the mac. 10.6.4 should be awesome as well. squash some more little bugs. i haven't had any major issues. I like how snow leopard has had very little os updates post-launch. it's very stable, best os release yet apple! keep it up. safari 5 better be slick and fast, i don't really enjoy using chrome. should see soon enough.
i sure hope 10.6.4 comes out and safari 5. chrome has been amazing! i have been using that full time since it's release on the mac. 10.6.4 should be awesome as well. squash some more little bugs. i haven't had any major issues. I like how snow leopard has had very little os updates post-launch. it's very stable, best os release yet apple! keep it up. safari 5 better be slick and fast, i don't really enjoy using chrome. should see soon enough.
Safari: I hope the smart address field can be turned off, it's too smart for me even now. Just give me a clean history aware address field without auto completion and without auto-main-page-location. And I wish that the google/yahoo/bing/whatever-search field can be hidden and the Bookmarks plus button too and the reload button too and an option to have the loading indicator within the address field back. I miss that a lot. Wrote some feedback long time ago but still waiting. I really would appreciate a browser as simple and clean as possible. And yes, WebApps would be cool, fullscreen would make sense then.
Safari DevTools: Interesting, wonder what this could be.
XCode: Two things which I also sent some feedback long ago:
- Give me an option to go back to the old search dialog. Please. For me, it's very annoying right now.
- Give me an option to hide all error bubbles. They are hiding the content, distracting and they make typing fantastically slow (one second per character and more).
And a preview of 10.7 would be nice. But they say they might be introducing 10.6.4? Strange.
WWDC sounds promising but nontheless I presume most of the keynote will be about certain small devices. Anyway I will not be able to watch the keynote before next saturday, so spoiler-freeness will be very hard this time.
Safari DevTools: Interesting, wonder what this could be.
XCode: Two things which I also sent some feedback long ago:
- Give me an option to go back to the old search dialog. Please. For me, it's very annoying right now.
- Give me an option to hide all error bubbles. They are hiding the content, distracting and they make typing fantastically slow (one second per character and more).
And a preview of 10.7 would be nice. But they say they might be introducing 10.6.4? Strange.
WWDC sounds promising but nontheless I presume most of the keynote will be about certain small devices. Anyway I will not be able to watch the keynote before next saturday, so spoiler-freeness will be very hard this time.
Maybe Valve will be there to show off the improvement in the new OpenGL drivers?
I doubt if we will hear a peep about 10.7 this summer.
I think you are misinterpreting the 10.6.4 rumor. It is expected to arrive next week, but that doesn't mean that it will be part of a major announcement.
More likely, if there is an auxiliary announcement like new hardware (e.g., Mac mini is being rumored to get an upgrade), it would make sense that a minor OS update would ship.
I wouldn't have a problem if Apple added a full screen option to Safari but I could care less anyway. I hate my windows maximized. When I use a PC I never maximize the browser to fill up the screen, it's just stupid to have so much left over unused space on the browser if the content doesn't fill up the window.
Your example of Apple offering full screen with Pages is totally different. It makes perfect sense for Pages to have a full screen option because you're working on projects in Pages, you're just web surfing with a browser.
Maximized Browser window
If you need that option only for browsers, you could use a Javascript:
javascript:if(window.screen.availWidth>window.outerWidth+window.screen.availWidth*0.05){window.moveTo(window.screen.availLeft,window.screen.availTop);window.resizeTo(window.screen.availWidth,window.screen.availHeight);}else{window.moveTo((window.screen.availLeft+window.screen.availWidth-1024)/2,window.screen.availTop);window.resizeTo(1024+window.outerWidth-window.innerWidth,window.screen.availHeight);}
Add that as the address of a bookmark and put it in the bookmark bar.
(I got this script from some webpage but don't know any longer from which.)
If you need that option only for browsers, you could use a Javascript:
javascript:if(window.screen.availWidth>window.outerWidth+window.screen.availWidth*0.05){window.moveTo(window.screen.availLeft,window.screen.availTop);window.resizeTo(window.screen.availWidth,window.screen.availHeight);}else{window.moveTo((window.screen.availLeft+window.screen.availWidth-1024)/2,window.screen.availTop);window.resizeTo(1024+window.outerWidth-window.innerWidth,window.screen.availHeight);}
Add that as the address of a bookmark and put it in the bookmark bar.
(I got this script from some webpage but don't know any longer from which.)
Interesting question.
This is the interesting question and I'd have to say no. For one thing no IDE fits everybody. For example I like Eclipse for some things but for other things it is troublesome. Besides who has just one text editor installed?
From Apples standpoint it is probably important to sail ones own ship here. Especially considering the integration of interface builder. The bias to XCode likely goes even deeper as they have had the rug pulled out from under them a couple of time with third party tools. XCode in this regard is a security blanket and a base line development environment.
It might be better if Apple simply supported Objective C on Eclipse.
Finally there is the issue with Eclipse running on Java. I don't personally think that is bad but I'm left with the impression that Apple would rather limit it's support of Java.
In any event I think it is a very good thing that Apple has XCode and continues to support it as the primary development tool for Apple products. For the developer it provides continuity and adds to the choice of editors. Personally I just wish they would focus more talent on it to do two things.
What two things you may ask. Well number one is the bugs in XCode itself, it is pretty bad if you ask me. The other is a need for an alternative to interface builder which causes me to wretch at times. I often call it the Anti Rapid Development System. Sometimes the only thing that matters is getting the app done quickly, IB is often a hinderence here.
Dave
Garbage collection has nothing to do with the IDE use to develop for a platform. On the otherhand YES garbage collection should come to the iPhone devices. I'm actually leaning towards that happening soon as the new A4 processor should be fast enough to handle garbage collection. There seem to be other hints that this will happen.
This is the interesting question and I'd have to say no. For one thing no IDE fits everybody. For example I like Eclipse for some things but for other things it is troublesome. Besides who has just one text editor installed?
From Apples standpoint it is probably important to sail ones own ship here. Especially considering the integration of interface builder. The bias to XCode likely goes even deeper as they have had the rug pulled out from under them a couple of time with third party tools. XCode in this regard is a security blanket and a base line development environment.
It might be better if Apple simply supported Objective C on Eclipse.
Finally there is the issue with Eclipse running on Java. I don't personally think that is bad but I'm left with the impression that Apple would rather limit it's support of Java.
In any event I think it is a very good thing that Apple has XCode and continues to support it as the primary development tool for Apple products. For the developer it provides continuity and adds to the choice of editors. Personally I just wish they would focus more talent on it to do two things.
What two things you may ask. Well number one is the bugs in XCode itself, it is pretty bad if you ask me. The other is a need for an alternative to interface builder which causes me to wretch at times. I often call it the Anti Rapid Development System. Sometimes the only thing that matters is getting the app done quickly, IB is often a hinderence here.
Dave
Yeah I never understood the full screen browser thing. Why? Most content can fit with plenty of room to spare anyway, so what's the point of making even more empty around the already huge empty space that's surrounding the actual content?
They have slowly gotten better at this whole "certificate" and provisioning profile thing for iphone/ipad developers, but I would love to see a LOT more there. I should never have to leave xcode ( or "organizer") to add beta testers, RENEW an existing provision painlessly, etc.
And their integrated documentation / SDK stuff seems bolted in but again getting better with each release.
Im very excited about xcode 4!
I imagine it'd be the same on PowerPC since the slow part there is the network speed, not the CPU. I bet the CPU is mostly idling on your Mini.
3 minutes sounds like ages. I've 73.9 days of stuff (24,221 songs) in iTunes here on my G5. It takes 14 seconds to load iTunes.
This talk of killing off PowerPC support in Safari is ridiculous. HTML5 isn't just about video, which is the only thing that really needs a faster CPU or GPU. All of the new HTML5 -webkit transitions and transforms work just fine on the 1Ghz G4 PowerMac I use as one of my website development machines. It's faster than some of the early Intel based Macs even.
Sure, it doesn't do 720p video well but neither do those Intel Macs either. My G4 PowerMac with a Radeon 9600 is better than my parent's Intel MacBook with GMA950 graphics.
The only thing Safari doesn't do in Apple's HTML5 demos is the 3D transforms because Safari presumably uses a Snow Leopard only library. It's not because PPC is slow or that the GPU is worse.
Apple would be killing off a lot of older machines with an Intel only version of Safari but then I guess we don't actually need it as most of the HTML5 features work already in Safari.
I'm not saying they should support PPC machines forever but Safari is a pretty important piece of software to stop support on if you're trying to push the HTML5 standard forward.
Until 10.7 is out and Apple stops supporting 10.5 like they did 10.4 when 10.6 came out, I don't think Apple will completely drop PPC.
Agreed. Although I find it interesting that Apple choses now to allow "Bing!" as a search option over "Google" given the recent tensions between the two companies. I wonder if Apple will allow this change with their desktop Safari.
I would love to see some mention of 10.7 as I'm curious as to what Apple has in store. Snow Leopard 10.6 is a great re-write of 10.5, I'm very interested as to the major changes, if any, 10.7 will bring. I've seen patents from a few years ago from Apple regarding a three dimensional desktop. With "Bumptop" being "discontinued" and limited when it was available, it makes one wonder if Apple had anything to do with it (acquisition perhaps?), but very doubtful. A three dimensional desktop that shows stacks as actual three dimensional stacks of files would be very interesting and much more suited to a "stack-esque" concept. With the three dimensional dock and patents, I wouldn't be too surprised if a three dimensional environment would be an option.
Maybe Jobs will at least announce the name (my guess would be Cougar or Lynx based on trademarks theyve already applied for), but I dont expect much.
Clearly, mobile OS X is their top priority at the moment.
+1
I'm really hoping to see some good SDK integration. They keep teasing us with the occasional xcode doc integration upgrade (the mini doc popup in the most recent release for example), but there could be so much more going on there.
Hopefully Apple will finally fix the HUGE memory leak in Safari. It's not uncommon that it's actually using more than a gigabyte of RAM on my system.
IPad IDE. That is a native Ruby or Python app/environment.
I know there has been some leg pulling on this thread in relation to an IDE running on the iPad. It is not a bad idea if of limited scope. I'd actually like to see a Mac Ruby like environment which would support on device development. The intent is to provide for a limited development environment where quick solutions could be scripted on the device. An alternative might be a place to buld Javascipt apps though I think that would be to limited.
Done right it could be very attractive to the corporate world and the hobbiest.
Dave
I know there has been some leg pulling on this thread in relation to an IDE running on the iPad. It is not a bad idea if of limited scope. I'd actually like to see a Mac Ruby like environment which would support on device development. The intent is to provide for a limited development environment where quick solutions could be scripted on the device. An alternative might be a place to buld Javascipt apps though I think that would be to limited.
Done right it could be very attractive to the corporate world and the hobbiest.
Dave
It'd be nice but I'd bet on a tool that spat out Webkit/HTML5/SproutCore packages on a Mac only, like Nokia does with it's clunky Webkit/HTML4/Gurana WRT app tool.