Linked List: June 30, 2004

Wednesday, 30 June 2004

Geek Patrol Interview with Arlo Rose ★

Arlo Rose:

People keep bringing up Desk Accessories. Desk Accessories were just mini applications accessed via the apple menu. The idea behind K is not so much about the basic Widgets as it is about empowering people to easily create their own and this is the key part that Dashboard duplicates.

So, by this logic, it’s OK for Apple to provide an API for desk accessory-like things, but it’s not OK for them to be easy to develop.

Ian Hickson on the State of Web App Development ★

Ian Hickson, in an excellent post on the state of web app development:

The first public demo of a Web Forms 2.0 page was actually a very high profile demo, though I highly doubt that anyone present actually realised they were looking at it. It was during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, during the Safari RSS spot. If you look at the top right of the screenshots of Safari showing an RSS feed, you’ll see a little slider control. That, my friends, is a Web Forms 2.0 <input type="range"> control.

Apple Releases Rendezvous for Windows, Linux, Java ★

Apple:

Rendezvous technology is now available on Windows 2000 and XP. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer.

They’ve also released versions for Java and for Linux/BSD/Solaris.

Mozilla Scriptable Plug-Ins ★

The Mozilla Foundation:

Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience

Apple, Macromedia, Opera, Sun, Mozilla… hmm… seems to me there used to be another company that wrote web browsers…

2004 Apple Design Award Winners ★

Freeverse’s Big Bang Chess, Panic’s Unison, and Pixelglow’s GraphViz are big winners. Macromedia Contribute and Freshly Squeezed’s PulpFiction also win.

(Via wafer, via iChat.)