Comments on: New Apple Pro App “Aperture” Uses WebKit

By: MHC-in-the-box » More on the WebKit fixes in Safari 2.0.2

MHC-in-the-box » More on the WebKit fixes in Safari 2.0.2 — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:20:31 +0000

[...] t work fellas!!!. While at the Surfin’ Safari site another news item caught my eye, New Apple Pro App “Aperture�? Uses WebKit. Whoah!

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By: rwclark

rwclark — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:15:27 +0000

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?

By: darin

darin — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:05:58 +0000

See http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5432 for information about the bug.

By: Spiff

Spiff — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:50:53 +0000

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.

By: Huck

Huck — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:05:33 +0000

Well, as long as your app costs less than $499, I’m sure it’ll do fine. : )

By: soosy

soosy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:39:51 +0000

Cool news!… except to the guy who’s trying to do the same thing.
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 ). Now, of course, some similar functionality is appearing in Aperture and probably, I expect, the upcoming SandVox.

Ah well, them’s the breaks. I may have to reorient the focus of my app, but I’m still moving forward.

By: Kyle Rove

Kyle Rove — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:27:59 +0000

It has to be the web gallery preview. Looks spiffy.

By: Ferdinand Svehla

Ferdinand Svehla — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:58:43 +0000

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?)

By: r.leroux

r.leroux — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:27:01 +0000

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…