A beta version of Times Reader for Mac users will be released this month. In building Times Reader for the Mac we’ve focused on providing the core set of features that have made the PC version popular. These include the easy-to-read paginated format, the ability to view the paper offline, a seven-day archive, text search, the ability to adjust the font size and access to Premium Crosswords. This is significant because it marks the first mainstream usage of Silverlight to power non-Windows platform software natively on the Mac platform.


According to Rob Larson (V.P. of Digital Production for the NY Times):
"The reader is using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology to render the pages on the Mac version. Silverlight includes a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) tools we use on the PC version. This allows us to keep the look and feel of the Mac version very close to the PC version and also allows us to reuse code across platforms." ,..., "However, text flow and copy/paste are not currently supported through Silverlight yet will be soon."

External Link: http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=46

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Don Burnett
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