First review of Aperture
Perhaps it isn't the first review of Aperture, but it is the first one I have seen with screenshots from the app. Lucien Dupont installed his copy of Aperture and was kind enough to post a quick review with a bunch of screenshots. The application looks very slick and Lucien reports that he hasn't experienced any crashes or bugs yet.
This sums up his thoughts nicely, 'I would compare it to the iPhoto I've always wanted and been willing to pay for. My only problem right now, for me and for Jennifer is that it won't install on any of our personal machines (a 12" PowerBook, about a year and 1/2 old, and an original 20" iMac).'
Lucien also took the time to post a web gallery produced from Aperture. The code it produces doesn't look too horrible, though I didn't take the time to validate it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Caius durling said 10:17AM on 11-29-2005
Web Gallery doesn't validate.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jennandlucien.net%2Flucien%2Fimages%2Faperture_gallery%2Findex.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline
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Mark Wallace said 4:12AM on 11-29-2005
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't part of XHTML Strict spec (and if memory serves, all of XHTML X.X spec for that matter), say that all tags and attributes supposed to be lower case?
If so, Apple, please, please, please let the devs who want to deploy this on a large scale site write out the export XSL stuff.
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Ben Goulding-Huckle said 10:08AM on 11-29-2005
i saw Aperture at mac expo in london looks like a pro version of iphoto
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Robert Knight said 5:09AM on 11-29-2005
Exactly!
121 errors, all of the tags uppercase and the doctype is XHTML 1.0 Strict.
That is embarassing.
Why would you use a strict doctype when it would be so easy to use transitional and not embarass yourself in the standards department?
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Mark Wallace said 6:39AM on 11-29-2005
That's what I thought. Now all I have to do is face the developers and say with a straight face, "I don't care Apple doesn't stick to standards. We do, so use *$(#ing lowercase tags!!!"
Any bets on how soon WASP goes indepth on this one?
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Brady J. Frey said 10:28AM on 11-29-2005
WASP'll hit that in a week minimum:)
It's coding is surprising -- both intelligient and downright stupid. I agree, there's no excuse for the uppercase tags (and whoever did that at apple, well, you're not a web professional indeed), the table is a little redudant (can't style a list people?), and the inline styles...
...but I'll give it this. I'm shocked to see a definition list in full use (though slightly off) -- that's something we don't see everyday. Including headers in proper organization.
So what do you need to do apple? Here goes:
1) No need for inline styles when it's automated -- dump it in the head if you must or in that external sheet like I see you have.
2) bordering on divitis, I argue for this style barely one is needed
3) why class most of those elements? It's an automated system for god sakes, I don't see why you just couldn't style the DD and DT respectively
4) If you're going to serve up XHTML as HTML in your Content-Type, then just go back to HTML and do it properly
5) Which leads us to as they said above -- no need for strict doctype if you're not going to adhere to strict standards.
With so many unneeded classes, id's and simply mistakes -- it's an embarrassment to the team who went Acid 2 first, publicly.
I'd assume that not all of apple teams are talking on this one?
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Mark W. Wallace said 12:37PM on 11-29-2005
I'll raise your comment Brady, and raise you with a nother fun fact... Aperture uses WebCore somewhere. Where, we don't know. But somewhere.
When I heard about it, (it was featured on Surfing Safari, so I fell into that fun black hole of productivity) I looked at the other applications that leveraged webkit. http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php/WebKit:Applications_using_WebKit Some makes sence, but where are they using that framework?
So the developer in me is starting ask questions like, "Can I make an interface that is display based in XHTML and just adjust what the Canvas has within it?" "If that's what they are doing with Aperture, What's stopping the rest of us from doing the same thing". Well, that and "Is there hope for Web Objects?" But I digress. Where are they using WebCore?
Oh, and I don't work at Apple,(nor know anyone who works there I think), so if I am right, its just the rantings of a fanboy who wants to work at Apple one day. {wish&&hope}
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