On 13.03.2008, at 04:03, Jens Alfke wrote:
Part of the fun of being an early adopter is that you have to figure
stuff out before there are books to explain it. It's your choice;
you could wait six months or a year for some books. But then you
won't be one of the first.
(Actually, the current docs are quite good, all things considered.
Back in the day, the system documentation used to consist of badly-
Xeroxed copies of napkins that the programmers had scrawled some
instructions on, while suffering from exhaustion and caffeine
psychosis. And the developer program charged you $1200 a year for
those, and didn't even give you a damn binder to put them in. And we
lapped it up!)
Maybe it paid off to be a "late adoptor". "Inside Macintosh:AppleTalk"
and "New Inside Macintosh:Quicktime" / "New Inside
Macintosh:Interapplication Communication" set a very high standard for
documentation - far higher than the IBM UI guidelines and the Windows
3.x docs from that time.
The current reference might be neat, but IMO it lacks severely what
made up the NIM series: Describing the architectural goals of an given
API.
Frankly, I consider
"NSCollectionView displays an array of content as a grid of views." as
sole overview and description less than sufficient.
The intro in the headstart movie is at least more comprehensive but a
text search won't find it.
Regards,
Tom_E
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