WWDC Keynote mini-reaction

The other day I wrote:

So I guess if I had to make a wager, horse racing style, I’m in for $2 on a UI update to place, $2 on an iPhone SDK to show. I could even pull an exotic and box those two on an exacta but I’d probably just be throwing away money at the point. It will be interesting to find out, just a few more days until post time, err, conference time.

Turns out the exacta would have paid out, depending on your definition of an iPhone SDK. So Cocoa is no, Web 2.0 is yes, I can live with that. Now I just need to get one of the darn things.

The Desktop/Finder updates looks promising but I won’t really know until I can drive it. The biggest announcement is also the strangest in the release of Safari for Windows. Tim has some first impressions of it but he didn’t mention the thing I like the most and that I’ve been waiting for since last WWDC…

Search highlighting.

I’ll pause and let you mumble whatever “You must be the lamest person in the history of history” joke that you want here.

Now that that is out the way, look at what I mean:

No more little blue highlighting of a word, this sucker is a giant orange rectangle-ish thingie that kind of pops onto the screen. If you can’t see this then, well, you probably never had a chance to see the old blue highlighting so you don’t know what you’re missing.