Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Aug 2002 18:13 UTC
Almost a year after our much discussed Mac OS X 10.1 review, it is time to write down our impressions from the new version of OSX, Jaguar 10.2. Is Jaguar worth the full $129 USD? Dive in for more. Update: Slashdot seems to agree with our review, at least on the backwards compatibility issue.
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I have a 600MHz iBook and Chimera is fast for me. Faster than Mozilla or OmniWeb, not to mention IE5.2... Regarding hardware support... Yeah, it's lousy. The only digital cameras supported are the most expensive ones. And I have a cheap one. A CF reader is cheap though. 32 euros. That's a workaround anyway. They should support some sort of generic digital camera or something. But I don't know if it's possible. Whatever.
About the scroll, I have the answer for you:
1) Cocoa apps support scrollwheels out-of-the-box. Carbon apps need to use a special API.
2) Gecko (in Chimera) is Carbon, but the view box is probably a NSScrollView (cocoa) subclass, so maybe that's where the problem lies. Jaguar allows to use carbon and cocoa smoothly in the same app, so that will porbably get solved really soon.
I hate carbon apps. They are Classic fossils. They will disappear (i hope) now that Apple supports Objective-C++ and Cocoa/Carbon mix.