Any time Steve Jobs gives a keynote, you know it’s going to be huge. I told my coworker, Caroline, that today is like Christmas for Apple fans like myself because Steve always has something cool to show off.
Of course I was all over every bit of live coverage I could find for the last hour and a half. I did a little live commenting on my Jaiku page for anyone that’s interested. The biggest announcements had to do with Leopard which I’m excited as hell to see in person. The iTunes CoverFlow interface is now the main interface for Finder. Apple’s been criticized in the past for not having a consistent interface across even their own apps. I guess they took it personal because now you see it everywhere. Even their website has been updated.
Now all of this Leopard stuff will have the Apple folks buzzing, but the rest of the world could probably care less. Steve had something for those other people today too. Safari on Windows. My initial reaction was “Meh. Another browser to worry about when coding.” However, they claim the rendering speed and Javascript performance is vastly superior to both Internet Explorer and Firefox. I’ll have to wait until I get home and get on my Windows machine to find out I guess (Windows Beta available now). I’m wondering if it’ll force Cocoa style on form widgets like the Mac version does. Supposedly Safari 3 is going to allow more control over them with CSS though. My final thought on Safari 3, you release a beta for Windows but not OS X (I guess I was too quick, there is a beta for OS X too!)?
[Normally I'd post some pictures, but I've been slacking off of work for the last 2 hours.]
