macrumors.com — Over 10 years ago, during the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (Rhapsody), Apple promised write-once, deploy everywhere functionality to developers in the then upcoming Mac OS X platform. Yellow Boxes for Intel and Mac OS would in theory make the Yellow Box the premiere choice for cross-platfor...
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smspenceJun 15, 2007
rmwimpee:Again with the 9to5mac blog spam. Stop it.
delmonteJun 16, 2007
Ehm... I don't usually ask that, but why am I getting dugg down? I'm stating facts... If anyone thinks these are not facts well explain yourself, don't just click the digg down button.
modusopJun 16, 2007
I'm pretty sure iTunes uses Webkit for the music store.
thomashaukJun 16, 2007
And OSX has that?
nsresponderJun 16, 2007
"one reason only - iPhone."Not quite. There's also a few million bucks a months in revenues from Google.-jcr
nsresponderJun 16, 2007
"iTunes doesn't use WebKit."True for now, but it probably will in the near future. No need to maintain a separate code base for XML parsing and HTML rendering.-jcr
nsresponderJun 16, 2007
"Yellow Box mapped the NEXTSTEP/Cocoa controls to standard WIndows controls,"Not really. The AppKit still did all the drawing and event handling within each window using DPS, even though they matched the appearance of the Windows controls. In fact, you could set the user interface style preference to NeXTSTEP, and get a decent appearance on a windows box.-jcr
leesoongJul 15, 2007
It would be nice for Apple to enable Mac developers to Write Once - Deploy Everywhere with.DLL files that provide 'OS X in Windows' support. No recompile needed, and 'Universal' programs run on G4, Intel, OS X and Windows XP / Vista.That would convince a lot of developers to support the Mac, because they wont be locked into writing 'just for' a percentage of the computer software market space.