This is a highly technical discussion of the speed of screen scrolling
in graphics mode of the OS. Shashdot, as usual, misrepresents this as
some kind of evil Apple plan. It has nothing at all to do with
security. There are likely all kinds of programming calls that have
not been documented by Apple. Building voices would be one example
that I can think of and that I would like to know myself.
Greg Kearney
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On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:40 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Sorry folk, this is all I have at the moment, but perhaps greg or
others can
shed more light?
From: Soulskill
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled
upon
some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the
performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented
APIs
that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other
browsers. Of
course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and
reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of
performance. You
really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of
retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
