Leopard Technology Overview
People have whipped themselves into a froth thanks to this Leopard Technology Overview, which is the first in an ADC series called Leopard Technology Series for Developers. Why are people so excited? Mostly because of the glimpses it gives us into Leopard. Here are some highlights:
Interface Builder 3.0 – Core Animation support included and a new IB Kit API
Xray – DTrace based GUI tool that allows you to visually see how your app is performing
Dashcode – a Widget IDE which we have covered before
Core Animation – create whizbang interfaces in no time flat!
Objective-C 2.0 – lots of improvements to the language that Mac geeks love
iChat integrated all over the place, including iChat Theatre, and an iChat API that will allow apps to poll iChat for presence info (i.e. are you online or not) and get contacts
Resolution Independence – this allows the OS and apps scale without worrying about the resolution of the monitor
Calendar Store – a central place that apps can query for iCal info
Who is excited about Leopard?
