We're not going to overextend ourselves adding a raft of new customer-facing, marketing-friendly features. The overall message from Apple to developers was something like this: "We're adding a ton of new things to Mac OS X that will help you write better applications and make your existing code run faster, and we're going to make sure that all this new stuff is rock-solid and as bug-free as possible. In context, however, it served as a developer-friendly affirmation. In isolation, "no new features" may seem to imply stagnation. It was also quickly followed by a back-pedaling ("well, there is one new feature.") slide describing the addition of Microsoft Exchange support. It probably helps to know that the "0 New Features" slide came at the end of an hour-long presentation detailing the major new APIs and technologies in Snow Leopard. Now they were applauding zero new features for Snow Leopard? What explains this? Many of these same developers applauded the "150+ new features" in Tiger and the "300 new features" in Leopard at past WWDCs. There were even a few hoots and whistles. After the rapid-fire updates of 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 followed by the riot of new features and APIs in 10.4 and 10.5, could Apple really get away with calling a "time out?" I imagine Bertrand was really sweating this announcement up on the stage at WWDC in front of a live audience of Mac developers. Leopard was officially scheduled for "spring 2007."Īs the date approached, Apple's marketing machine trod a predictable path. Through various channels, Apple communicated its intention to move from a 12-month to an 18-month release cycle for Mac OS X. Apple took the lesson to heart and quickly set expectations for the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard. Tiger was a hit with users and developers. At the time, it definitely seemed worth the wait. Tiger took over a year and a half to arrive. Since its introduction in 2001, there had been at least one major release of Mac OS X each year. Apple's marketing campaign reflected this, touting "over 150 new features."Īll those new features took time. When the finished product arrived in April of 2005, Tiger was the biggest, most important, most feature-packed release in the history of Mac OS X by a wide margin. See attached screenshot for what I mean.In June of 2004, during the WWDC keynote address, Steve Jobs revealed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to developers and the public for the first time. Right now there is no way for me to make the latest 2 sites be the default site that comes up when one logs in, since the dropdown where those sites are listed doesn’t have a search field like the non-settings page does. Not having more than 10 sites listed in the preferences is very difficult to work around though. I just noticed FF has downloaded version 13.0 so perhaps after restarting FF, it will work, but those on FF 12 may still have the issue. I can confirm that the cursor is inside the text field and blinks, so it does appear active. Typing in that field causes the system error “beep” to happen. Firefox 12.0 under Mac OS X 10.6.8 does not allow me to type into that search field when the Dashboard tab is active. I just tried it in Safari on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and it works fine. Thanks for any information you can provide! Is there a current limit of 11 sites in that menu? If so, why is the search field unable to be typed into for the “Dashboard” tab? I’m using Firefox 12.0 under Mac OS X 10.6.8. Typing in that search field for the 2 missing sites, does bring them up and I can then view them, but only from the “Visitors” tab. Thankfully one can type into that search field if viewing the “Visitors” tab, but not when viewing the “Dashboard” tab. I’m the administrator, with privs to access all sites, but in the ‘User settings’ section, under the ‘Report date to load by default’ the dropdown menu that is after the “Dashboard for a specific website” doesn’t list the 2 newly created sites.įurther complicating matters, when viewing the Dashboard, the site dropdown on the right doesn’t list the 2 sites either and the search field can’t be typed into. But the 2 I created are very hard to get to. I created 2 sites after upgrading to 1.8.2. I just upgraded from 1.7.x to 1.8.2 and all is working well except for a couple of things.
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