Linked List: July 1, 2004

Thursday, 1 July 2004

Current iMacs Discontinued; New iMacs in September ★

This is the stangest hardware announcement I’ve ever seen from Apple. The old iMacs are discontinued — Apple is no longer taking orders for them. But new iMacs won’t be introduced until September. Says Apple:

We planned to have our next generation iMac ready by the time the inventory of current iMacs runs out in the next few weeks, but our planning was obviously less than perfect.

Poor score for planning; high score for honesty.

Hyatt on NSSearchField Wrapper in WebCore ★

Dave Hyatt:

One of the new features added to WebCore is an HTML wrapper for the Cocoa NSSearchField, which means you will be able to use this control in your Web pages and Dashboard widgets.

Dashboard is going to be huge. Huge.

Hyatt on Dashboard ★

Dave Hyatt:

Just to prove a point that there are many ways to think about this new feature, here’s another take on what Dashboard is. From a browser geek’s perspective, the Dashboard is a collection of HTML sidebar panels liberated from the browser window and placed anywhere on your screen. The “Web pages as widgets” concept is really just a logical extension of the Web sidebar panel metaphor fused with Exposé.