Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
gee i wouldn't mind being able to write native apps... video-game
like
interfaces and the like... things where the interface performance is
important...
The other thing I forgot to mention (curse my goldfish-like attention
span) is Widgets. It's not yet clear whether "you can't install your
own native apps" extends to Widgets. It may not.
Widgets are basically HTML/CSS/JavaScriptlets that appear in suitable
eye-candy format on OS X's Dashboard. And, interestingly, you can
hook into the Cocoa APIs with them. From Dave Hyatt's 'Surfin
Safari'' blog:
A Dashboard widget is a bundle that contains a principal HTML file
and any supporting code that the widget requires (be it CSS, JS,
images, or native code). A widget can add an optional interface to
native code, written in Objective-C, that can be bound into
JavaScript and made accessible from the HTML document's JS window
object.
Last year Apple released (inadvertently) an IDE for Widgets, called
Dashcode (http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/dashboard.html). Why go
to the trouble of putting together a whole IDE for a fairly marginal
feature of OS X? Maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with the
iPhone...
cheers
Richard
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