Re: Cocoa for "platform independence"???
Re: Cocoa for "platform independence"???
- Subject: Re: Cocoa for "platform independence"???
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:00:38 -0500
On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 11:14 AM, Ken Tabb wrote:
I appreciate the WWDC stuff is under NDA, but the words 'platform
independence' in the following session plan stick out like a sore thumb.
Does this relate to the message earlier about
"NSWindows95InterfaceStyle"? I'm guessing this is just my overactive
mind, but you've got to admit it's rather ambiguous if they don't mean
that there'll be Cocoa for Windows (and sorry for opening the
floodgates!)
Nope. You've gotten it backwards. There *used* to be a Cocoa for
Windows, it was called 'Yellow Box for Windows' and morphed into WO 4.0
(and 4.5/4.5.1).
It was killed a few years ago (1998/99, I think). It still sort of
survives as WO 4.5.1, but you aren't allowed to distribute any Cocoa
apps on Windows with it (the license prohibits it).
At the time, people were quite unhappy about it...
They can't be talking about mixing platform independent Java API classes
with Cocoa non-platform independent classes, as it distinctly says
"Cocoa
APIs... platform independence".
Just thinking out loud,
I'm not sure *what* they mean by platform independence nowdays... The
AppKit/Foundation stuff used to run on a whole bunch of platforms
(Windows, Solaris, etc), but now it's just OSX.
Brian
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http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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