Dashcode

Dashcode is a development environment from Apple for Mac OS X, with which you can easily create widgets for the Dashboard of Mac OS X, and Web applications for the iPhone and Safari. Both are based on web standards such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Dashcode provides a code editor, a large collection of ready-made elements that place the developer drag and drop on the desktop and can connect with their own or predefined JavaScript snippets, and a debugger. With the latter, you can interrupt the JavaScript code breakpoints, and perform step by step and debug it. The surface of Dashcode is geared to Xcode and Interface Builder (icons, panels).

Dashcode had been introduced at the WWDC 2007, and was 10.5 integrated for the first time in Mac OS X in Xcode Tools 3.0. There was also a version for Mac OS X 10.4, which was no longer supported quickly. At market launch of the iPhone programmed with Dashcode web apps were the only way to run programs from other vendors. That changed in the spring of 2008, when Apple introduced the iPhone SDK 2.0.

In Xcode 4.3, which summarizes the old Developer folder in a single application ( Xcode.app ), Dashcode is no longer part of the Developer Tools. However, it can still be downloaded for free from Apple's Developer Download Portal ( a free registration is required for this. ) In OS X Mavericks is the latest version of Dashcode, 3.0.5, no longer supported. On request, Apple announced that Dashcode is no longer being developed and is not supported in OS X Mavericks.

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