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Apple Releases JavaScriptCore Framework

Posted by pudge on from the i-thought-java-was-dead dept.

ace writes "Apple has released the source to JavaScriptCore, a JavaScript framework based on KDE's kjs JavaScript engine. 'JavaScriptCore is a private API which may be used by future Mac OS X applications such as Sherlock, and is provided as Open Source as part of our partnership with the KDE community. JavaScriptCore will be used by Sherlock in an upcoming OS release, and possibly by other Apple software in the future. Apple chose kjs as the basis of its JavaScript technology for its simple and efficient code.'"

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  1. What's it for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems to me Apple wants to support Javascript within Sherlock due to the addition of new internal HTML rendering capabilities within Sherlock 3. (vs. today's Sherlock, which requires linking to a Browser to reveal/show webpage search results.)
    My guess is that over time Apple wil make Javascript an equal MacOS X scripting system, alongside Applescript - and thus it's potential for us in other apps as well...

  2. Re:so... um? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think the idea is to bring scripting exploits beyond the browser and into the OS'es file searching functionality.

    (/me misses good ol' FindFile)

    I'm glad to see apple working with the KDE guys, but I think Sherlock needs scripting about as much as an email client does (hint: not at all). Web services, web schmervices. Even if we needed web services in sherlock, we wouldn't need them to use javascript.

  3. Re:ever heard of RPM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    as in *RedHat* Package Manager?

    Hmm. you must mean the package system that doesn't automatically do dependencies unless you use the restricted closed-source redhat up2date software...

    (free for one system, pay them money if you want more...)

    i'll take apt-get over that any day, thankyouverymuch

    (i use it through fink)