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December 22, 2006

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Dashcode beta available to ADC members

Posted Dec. 22, ’06, 8:01 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » News

DashcodeAs we discussed on the most recent podcast Apple ventured into the beta arena recently with Aperture; now it’s released a beta version of the forthcoming Dashcode developer environment for Dashboard widgets. It’s available to Apple Developer Connection members (including those with free accounts). Here’s what it says:

This is a developer beta release of Dashcode, a new application for creating powerful Dashboard widgets coming in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). This beta release has been scaled back to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in order to get feedback from a broad range of users. Dashcode will only be released officially as part of Mac OS X 10.5. This beta release will cease to function on July 15, 2007.
I was hoping the beta termination date would give us some clue as to Leopard’s release, but I’d say July falls out of the “spring” window. This version seems to incorporate a number of different templates, more than the previous accidentally released version. I’m also wondering at the “scaled back” comment—seems like there might be some new Dashboard features that we haven’t seen yet. Could they be…top secret?

[via Uneasy Silence]


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