Apfeltalk, a German-language website has published screenshots of Apple’s devleoper preview release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Safari 4.
The images have been pulled from the original website, but you can see one of them currently on Engadget.
Paul Miller reports for Engadget, “Most interesting is a new Safari 4.0 feature to “Save as Web Application,” which creates a Safari-lite, double-clickable application out of any webpage, similar to Firefox’s Prism. Google Docs, anyone?”
See them here.
so much for no new features
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The “features” and screenshots are from Safari 4, not Snow Leopard specifically.
Snow Leopard will have new features, but Apple will wait until the last minute to announce them.
The addition of ZFS to Snow Leopard Server is a huge addition. (gee, that’s a new feature) Will it make it into the client version we all use? Let’s hope!
By not offering a great number of compelling (read: “marketable”) new features in Snow Leopard, Apple can avoid alienating the millions of Mac users still using PowerPC machines, while offering users of Intel Macs specific and worthwhile reasons to upgrade. It’s a much more gentle upgrade path, not dissimilar to the Classic Environment strategy.
Hopefully, Apple will finally get the drivers fixed for my AE-35 telemetry unit.
Wonder how many Tiger users will now make the leap to Leopard with ‘Snow Leopard?’
Mr. Reee is FULL OF SHIT. Apple is not waiting until the last minute to announce new features. They have announced all the new features there are. No need for this stupid lie to be repeated.
The “Save as Web Application” functionality is already superbly implemented for Leopard users by Fluid – visit fluidapp.com for details. It’s very cool to see Apple driving awareness of the whole Web App idea like this.
I know we all love to hear about new versions of the Mac OS, but I am WAY more interested in getting Leopard to be as good as Tiger was. Really.
As the proud user of a three year old Powerbook G4, Leopard is my last OS. Apple, lets get that engine humming before we push the new sugary version.
I think this “no major new features” is a ploy. If they are dumping PPC support, perhaps then 10.6 will have virtualization.
@msr
watch your language. people like you are not welcome at a forum like this.
Dan over at Roughly Drafted is saying the size of Apple’s Apps is going to shrink significantly in Snow Leopard.
I think msr is “FULL OF SHIT”, but … that’s just my opinion.
I agree with Mr Reee, the “no new features” comment was “a ploy”. Like Apple’s “guidance” numbers, they have minimized the anticipation of changes headed our way. Lots of minor (but important, significant) changes under the hood will be the major focus of the update, but Safari (and Mail?) will see significant updates – likely only available with SL. ZFS won’t be available with the client version, not initially, so it doesn’t really “count”.
SL’s “no new features” is a red herring designed to lull M$ and Wall Street into complacency. There may well be FEW new features associated with SL itself, but there will be a number of improvements coming along, even if they don’t count as “OS features”.
ralph, my apologies for the quoted comment. Agreed, this is a “family forum”, or ought to be. Though … potty talk is usually considered more “crude” or “rude” than obscene. Still, we ought to be demonstrating to the younger members how ‘adults’ REALLY talk rather than how drunken, over-aged adolescents talk.
Just get rid of the old code and make everything snappier. Using the Spaces with several apps doing something, accessing Dashboard, burning a DVD, downloading stuff, uploading to Youtube, letting Quicktime record video while working on FinalCut, all that at the same time. You know what I’m talking about…need it snappier. Also fix the Finder and get rid of the HFS+
I think Apple are going to break Leopard down:
Leopard Basic
Leopard Home Basic
Leopard Home Advanced
Leopard Home Ultimate
Leopard Business Basic
etc etc.
All priced at $59.99!
Yes, I agree, this is a family forum, and even though the actual owners of the site chose to leave the censor switch off, thus allowing for complete freedom of speech and allowing words like “Shit” and “Fuck” to be posted. We don’t want any words like “Asshole and “Bullshit” in the forum, so please take it from the couple forum posters (not the actual admin) that this is a family site and censor your own posts. May I suggest “Full of Sh!t” or “Steve Balmer is an A$$hole”. By censoring your own posts, we will keep all of the 5 year olds, who are cruising this site to find out which company is selling the iPhone in Japan is, or what stupid thing Steve Ballmer said today, safe from all dangerous words… Heh, heh, those crazy little kids… just can’t get enough Mac news. WHO’D A THUNK!
So, msr, if you can please edit your post, maybe to something like this.
“Mr. Reee is FULL OF NUMBER TWO. Apple is not waiting until the last minute to announce new features. GEE WHIZ, They have announced all the new features there are. No need for this DANGEDNABBIT lie to be repeated. FOR SHEESH SAKES!
Ah… See? Isn’t that post much more adult like?
Oh! also, you all might want to think about taking your children out of school to keep them safe too… That’s where I learned all of my dirty words, from the schoolyard when I was a kid.
That’s actually in the Safari 4 Dev Preview, which runs on Tiger, Leopard, and apparently Snow Leopard.
Ah… See? Isn’t that post much more adult like?
No, actually it’s pandering to the fantasy that children are precious snowflakes who need to be protected from “bad words.” In reality, children know these words, and a lot more, from an early age
I don’t understand the concept of making a “double-clickable application out of any webpage.” What the hell does that mean? How can a web page be an application? Anybody?
Actually it’s not about whether they know them or not, it’s about shaping them into proper kids and adults who can and do express themselves in a literate and controlled manner. Garbage in, garbage out.
For cryin’ out loud, whatever you do, run all the “dirty” words and violence past your children’s eyes that you can . . . drill it into their little brains that it’s okay to shoot and kill people and blow things up and stick knives into strangers and swear like a sailor during Fleet Week . . . but for de love of God, if you let them see just one square millimeter of that slightly darker skin on a woman’s breast known as an areola, well then . . . YOU HAVE COMMITTED A SIN AGAINST HUMANITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Yeh-heh-heh-heh-heheehessssssssss . . . I love a little hypocrisy in de morning.
@yoyo
absolutely agree with you. just make it shnappee. thing is, for those of us who have to run full CS suites and more it is going to be interesting to see how things are optimized.
looking forward to snow leopard being the icing on the ten series cake…
Welcome back Triumph! I missed ya.
I think Apple actually said that there would not be any new MAJOR features in Snow Leopard. I guarantee there will be plenty of smaller ones.