{"id":1000539,"date":"2007-04-11T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/04\/11\/quicktime-api-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T11:31:41","slug":"quicktime-api-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/04\/11\/quicktime-api-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickTime API Overhaul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkSecret is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinksecret.com\/news\/0704qtopengl.html\">reporting<\/a> that Apple is revising the QuickTime APIs in Leopard:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new Application Programming Interface (API) for video, which may feature a &#8220;Core&#8221; moniker akin to Apple&#8217;s Core Image, Core Audio, and Core Animation components, will deliver most of the improvements to QuickTime. While QuickTime from a end-users perspective is not expected to undergo any substantial improvements, the new API will take years of legacy QuickTime code and replace it with a more modern and efficient architecture to deliver improved performance and maintainability. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is long, long overdue. If I ever get around to writing my API Design book, I was planning to use QuickTime as a classic example of how <em>not<\/em> to design an API. Now if only they&#8217;d rev QuickTime for Java too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple is revising the QuickTime APIs in Leopard: A new Application Programming Interface (API) for video, which may feature a &#8220;Core&#8221; moniker akin to Apple&#8217;s Core Image, Core Audio, and Core Animation components, will deliver most of the improvements to QuickTime. While QuickTime from a end-users perspective is not expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}