“When Leopard arrived, a number of significant new technologies came with it, including Objective-C 2.0, Core Animation, and ImageKit,” Dave Jewell reports for The Register.
“ImageKit brings together a number of classes designed to make it easy to display and edit images, view slideshows, take pictures using an attached or built-in camera, and more besides. In fact, ImageKit is itself built on top of Core Animation, hence the snazzy effects that it uses. The latest version of Preview also makes use of ImageKit when displaying and manipulating images,” Jewell reports.
“This all sounds great and doubtless gets you straining at the leash to start working with the ImageKit classes, right? Unfortunately, there are some intriguing holes in the documentation,” Jewell reports. “These piqued my interest.”
Full article here.
What? Is MDN gonna start covering each API now?!? A little too low level don’tcha think?
Wow. Thanks for reminding us not to read The Register.
Ha.
Notice the total lack of frothy-mouthed commentary from the usual opinionated-but-ignorant MDN crowd.
This isn’t even useful – why would the average person care? This isn’t a programming forum, or even very technical at all. I thought most articles were supposed to spark ill informed political ranting and mild troll bashing… I don’t come here for secret Cocoa tips.
Hmm… why do I? Might just give this website a miss for a while. Things are definitely going downhill.
The most technical I would want to get is maybe discuss the ergonomic advantages that the new laptops bring by not having any cables on the right-hand side where I like to use my wireless mouse.
…like ‘pocketrocket’
More perspective of this moron, here:
http://www.appleeclectic.com/?p=868
It should be clear that the 999 dollars McBook is just a LURE to get people into the Appel stores. Once in the Appel stores they will be steared towards the more expensive McBuck laptops.
DAMN, Claude, you caught us. We did a tiny update to our most popular model, lowered the price by almost 10%, then put it out there to draw folks in to see our newer, flashier, more profitable models. (Something Dell, HP or Lenovo would never try … right?) Not that the “McBuck laptops” don’t provide good value for the price, they compare quite well with existing Windows laptops in the same price ranges, but they don’t even TRY to compete in the Lo-Buk$ zone most Windows laptops try to flourish in.
Well, at least our LURE is actually available for sale – at the advertised price and with all the features claimed or implied. Heck, it even has a slightly buffer CPU then the base model they want you to fall in love with.