New Apple Pro App “Aperture” Uses WebKit
Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Friday, October 21st, 2005 at 12:33 amApple’s new post-production tool for professional photographers, Aperture, joins the growing list of innovative applications that use WebKit. Aperture hasn’t quite shipped yet but in the meantime check out the Gallery and Journal features on the Aperture Quick Tour. Take a look at the videos and screenshots, it looks really spiffy.
UPDATE: We’d like to mention other interesting uses of WebKit here too. If you have a WebKit-based app that you think is particularly interesting, send a note by email (and feel free to add it to the wiki page).
October 21st, 2005 at 4:27 am
Hi,
Could someone list all the Apple applications that use WebKit?
Doing so might help test it more. I know that Mail and Apple Help uses it…
October 21st, 2005 at 6:58 am
I am wondering _how_ WebKit is used in Aperture.
Looking at the UI, I can not find a single part which would benefit from WebKit
(Mabe the printed Books, or the web gallery preview?)
October 21st, 2005 at 7:27 am
It has to be the web gallery preview. Looks spiffy.
October 21st, 2005 at 8:39 am
Cool news!… except to the guy who’s trying to do the same thing.
). Now, of course, some similar functionality is appearing in Aperture and probably, I expect, the upcoming SandVox.
I’ve been learning Cocoa and working on similar gallery functionality using Webkit for display, but it’s been taking longer than I hoped. Cutting my programming teeth on the latest Webkit API probably wasn’t the smartest move as there is less documentation for it than the other Cocoa stuff (not in books yet, etc). Also, I’ve run into several bugs like not being able to get a reference to DOMCSSStyleSheet and some funkiness with addSubresource (bugs submitted, one fixed already
Ah well, them’s the breaks. I may have to reorient the focus of my app, but I’m still moving forward.
October 22nd, 2005 at 6:05 am
Well, as long as your app costs less than $499, I’m sure it’ll do fine. : )
October 24th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Anyone else having problems with the Aperture Quick Tour website with the latest WebKit+SVG nightlies? If I go to…
http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktour/
…then let the first one (RAW support) start playing, then scroll down and click on the link for the next one, what happens is the first one keeps playing, a new window opens up for the “second” one, but actually plays a second copy of the “first” one instead.
Works fine in the latest official shipping Safari.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
See http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5432 for information about the bug.
November 1st, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Nice job on passing the acid2 test in 10.4.3. Is it just me or does the diamond-shaped nose appear ever so slightly smaller than the reference rendering?
November 3rd, 2005 at 3:20 pm
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