Summary
Many Cocoa classes have been expanded and improved in the Jaguar release of Mac OS X. Several entirely new frameworks have been added including support for industry standard vCard databases, accessibility features, CD and DVD writing, digital camera access, and text to speech. The Quartz 2D graphics system has been improved and benefits from graphics hardware acceleration in some cases. Apple has made substantial enhancements to the networking layers of the operating system and the BSD Unix tools.
Cocoa applications written with previous versions of Mac OS X continue to work, and in some cases they automatically gain new features when run on Mac OS X 10.2. Most of the enhancements add value to all Cocoa applications. Cocoa applications ...
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