By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 25, 2006
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
- Scott Stevenson on Leander Kahney’s Weird Jobs-Gates Comparison ★
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Perfectly said. I found Kahney’s article to be creepy, almost on the verge of, say, criticizing Jobs for his religious beliefs. The stuff Kahney is advocating and criticizing is none of anyone’s business other than Jobs’s.
- C-Command Universal Binaries ★
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Michael Tsai has released universal binary updates to SpamSieve, BBAutoComplete, and DropDMG.
- Carbon Universal Binary Bullshit From Think Secret ★
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At the tail end of a report on the ostensibly slower-than-expected sales to date of the Intel-based iMac (I don’t believe it), Think Secret’s Ryan Katz writes:
Major software vendors like Adobe and Microsoft have been careful not to shed any light on when their popular and performance-critical programs will be ready as Universal Binaries. Both companies’ products are extensively Carbonized — a result of Apple’s transition to Mac OS X — which are far more difficult to convert to Universal Binaries than Cocoa applications written from the ground up for OS X.
The difficulties faced by Microsoft and Adobe moving their suites to universal binaries have very little to do with Carbon; their problem is that they were still using CodeWarrior, and CodeWarrior cannot generate universal binaries. BBEdit is a Carbon application, and was running as a universal binary before last year’s WWDC was over. Version 8.2.3 was released as a universal binary back in August, long before most Cocoa apps. The reason Bare Bones was able to universalize it so quickly is that they’d switched from CodeWarrior to Xcode a few versions ago.
That said, I’m not criticizing Adobe or Microsoft for not having already made the switch to Xcode. Most developers I know consider CodeWarrior a much better IDE than Xcode for C++ development, and also much better-suited for very large projects.
- Jobs and Iger Comment on Disney’s Acquisition of Pixar ★
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AppleInsider reports on a CNBC interview with Steve Jobs and Bob Iger:
Even with the buyout, Disney films produced by Pixar’s animation studios and staff will continued to be marketed under the dual “Disney Pixar” brand. “It would be foolish to throw any of [the successful brand] away,” the company said.
- Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics ★
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Massive analysis of real-world HTML markup from Google:
In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below. We hope this is of use!
(Via Jesper via AIM.)
- Apple’s iWork Is Second-Best Selling Office Suite ★
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iWork has a higher retail sales market share than Corel, even though iWork is only available for Macs. I knew Microsoft dominated the office market on Windows, but I thought their market share was like IE’s, around 90 percent. I had no idea that it was over 95 percent. In other words, the slice of the Windows market left over after Microsoft Office is smaller than the Mac market. It’s worth noting that because these figures are based on U.S. retail sales, they don’t take into account freely-downloadable open source products like OpenOffice.
And so much for AppleInsider’s report that iWork sales have been disappointing.
- High Volume Flow ★
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Kottke on how much work is involved keeping comments open on a popular weblog.
- On Brain Training ★
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Cabel Sasser:
As you read this, a fairly significant revolution in the videogame industry is taking place in Japan. A quirky “game” is gaussian-blurring the line between games and applications, old and young, fun and utility, gamer and non-gamer — and you might be surprised by the results.