Well, partially. As long as you’re using Mac OS X. Java has always suffered in the GUI department. Swing has a reputation for being slow, although it should really have a reputation for being difficult to use well. Plus it’s always suffered from looking almost like the host platform but not quite. I won’t even [...]
Archive for March 24th, 2005
More neat toys
I’ve stumbled across a few nice programs recently which have reminded me why I jumped ship to the Mac. iComic gets Dilbert (among others) straight to your desktop. Plus it does the standard Cocoa goodies such as fade-in and out when browsing and animated window resizing. Nice. And free! Skype, while being merely a port, [...]
