A few people have asked me about Universal binary support in WebnoteHappy Lite. The short answer is I don’t have an Intel Mac to do a lot of testing on. But a friend of mine has acquired one so I will probably spend some time on his iMac Core Duo.

I did do some brief testing of WebnoteHappy Lite when he first got it and I am happy to say that it runs great in Rosetta mode. It was just as fast and stable as it is on my PowerBook G4. But I’m sure it’ll be even faster once I create and test a Universal build. Maybe I’ll even create a small test suite that exercises it to make a mini-benchmark like the Subversion benchmark I’ve been collecting results for.

As for WebnoteHappy Pro, I hope to make that Universal from the beginning. It is quite easy for me to do so code-wise, since it is like Steve Jobs says: you just click one checkbox. This is because I’m programming in Pure Cocoa and leveraging the Apple-supplied frameworks as much as possible.

But the big caveat, at least to us Software Developers who care about our users, in making a Universal binary is the testing. You really should test your application on its intended destination, in this case an Intel-based Mac, before you deliver it. So I’ll likely be spending even more time with my friend’s iMac, camping out at the Apple Store, or ending my hold out for a MacBook Pro 17″. :)