Briefly: WWDC invite hints at continued Leopard focus; tix on sale
The invite reads "Save the date," and depicts a calendar window within Apple's forthcoming Time Machine backup software — one of the major enhancements slated to ship as part of Leopard.
Overnight, Apple also began accepting ticket orders for the conference. Those who register for the event early save $300 per ticket. A standalone ticket to the 5-day conference costs $1295, while a "buy four, get one free" 5-pack sells for $5180.
Apple is also offering package deals that include membership to the Apple Developer Connection (ADC). A WWDC ticket and "Select" ADC membership runs $1695, while a "Premier" membership includes access to WWDC for $3500.
Included with each ADC Premier or Select membership is the Leopard Early Start Kit, which provides exclusive advance access to a complete set of development resource to help developers deliver applications for the next major release of Mac OS X, including pre-release versions of Leopard.
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What, it ain't gonna be ready for release in June? Somebody find out how much it will cost to lure Allchin out of retirement.
The windows shown have a similar but very different feel when compared to current brushed metal and unified windows in OS X Tiger windows and Leopard preview windows. Note the beveled edges, the rounded corners, the feel that the contents of the window are sunken in a bit, etc. Some have speculated that Apple is completely re-doing the UI in Leopard and they point to the lack of major changes to some apps, especially Finder, as evidence of this.
Could this be the "new" look of Leopard windows? Or am I just reading too much into this?
Discuss.
Hey your right it is beveled, I didn't notice that until you said it. I think that'd be cool is that was the look for the whole OS, like all the infor was sitting inside the window, instead of just inside a top and bottom border.
beveled as a click-area for window resizing using all four edges?
Ick, I don't want my windows to look a relish dish. And the tiny surface area exposed by the bevels would make a tough target for resizing.
Those calendar pagers might be indicative of something, but I doubt it's the new look of windows in Leopard. There is zero functional reason to give windows the appearance of being slightly concave and lots of reasons why you wouldn't want to do that.