This would be one heck of a phishing scam to get everyone's Apple ids. Has anyone verified that the site is legit?
It looks good to me, but don't just take my word for it [1].
iCloud beta
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#32The team involved really spent the time to make the web versions of these apps have an aesthetic unified with the iOS and Mac versions. As someone who does web stuff day in, day out... the difference between working and polished is huge. Apple has pulled out all the stops to make these polished apps. Kudos to them.
They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
Re: iCloud beta
#33This would be one heck of a phishing scam to get everyone's Apple ids. Has anyone verified that the site is legit?
If it were a phishing scam, I'd still have to give the phisher a thumbs up for using sproutcore & CSS3 techniques on the site. There's a significant amount of javascript for a phishing page.
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#34Just as with MobileMe, iCloud Web seems to be done with SproutCore and a bit of jQuery[1]. Though it feel funny when they recreate the iOS-style scrollbar with JavaScript, despite Lion already has such a thing... (not to mention the scrollbar is inconsistent between Contacts and iCloud Calendar) I'm honestly surprised at how "complete" these apps are. At least with Calendar and Contacts, they works exactly like its i…
I'm curious if they are using SC1.6 or some custom build. Maybe even 2.0?
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#35So I get the skeuomorphic UIs, complete with bits of torn paper at the top of the calendar pad and all, without even the justification of a touchscreen? No, thanks. Are they going to put a scent generator in my next Mac so my trash starts to stink if I don't empty it?
These are there because Mac is going touch as well (at first only using the macbook and magic trackpads, but I think there will be a stronger merger between OSX and iOS in terms of user input in coming releases.
Guess even a 0-button mouse wasn't enough... the UI hints are all about trackpads and deep touch gestures.
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#36so easy
step 1) so sorry. You are on wrong OS. try again
step 2) so sorry. You are on wrong browser. try again
step 3) so sorry. You must enable Javascript. try again
step 4) so sorry. You must be developer. try again
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#37Strange, it doesn't recognize my Apple ID at all. It knows the one I use for iTunes but when I try to use my developer ID it says the login doesn't even exist. It's a paid account and it works fine in the developer portal.
(I would ask for help in the developer forums but I can't login to those either. It just keeps redirecting me to the splash page.)
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#38So I get the skeuomorphic UIs, complete with bits of torn paper at the top of the calendar pad and all, without even the justification of a touchscreen? No, thanks. Are they going to put a scent generator in my next Mac so my trash starts to stink if I don't empty it?
The torn paper effect is in the current MobileMe calendar anyway. But, sadly, there's no gradual increase in the torn bits during the year - by December it should be ragged... A missed opportunity, at least in mobileme. Haven't seen icloud yet.
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#39The team involved really spent the time to make the web versions of these apps have an aesthetic unified with the iOS and Mac versions. As someone who does web stuff day in, day out... the difference between working and polished is huge. Apple has pulled out all the stops to make these polished apps. Kudos to them.
They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
I happen to agree with you here - its almost like the "uncanny valley" for applications.
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#40Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, only paying developers. who knows which mysterious rules Apple uses to let people in. Here are some screenshots: http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/01/icloud-com-opens-up-for-develo... http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/apple-icloud-dot-com-web-ap... All three apps (Mail, Contacts, Calendar) are very feature rich, responsive and quite shiny. At least Calendar uses local storage (but wi…
Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, only paying developers. I have a free developer account and was able to log in. I don't have a @me.com address so I couldn't check Mail, but the rest worked.
And conversely, I have a paid developer account and it would not let me in. I think it might be confused because my Apple ID is an old-school one that isn't an email address.