People have whi ed 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 glim es it gives us into Leopard. Here are some highlights:
- Interface Builder 3.0 dash; Core Animation su ort included and a new IB Kit < an cla ="ca ">API
- Xray dash; DTrace based < an cla ="ca ">GUI tool that allows you to visually see how your a is performing
- Dashcode dash; a Widget < an cla ="ca ">IDE which we have covered before
- Core Animation dash; create whizbang interfaces in no time flat!
- Objective-C 2.0 dash; lots of improvements to the language that Mac geeks love
- iChat integrated all over the place, including iChat Theatre, and an iChat < an cla ="ca ">API that will allow a to poll iChat for presence info (i.e. are you online or not) and get contacts
- Resolution Independence dash; this allows the OS and a scale without worrying about the resolution of the monitor
- Calendar Store dash; a central place that a can query for iCal info
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