Apple Releases JavaScriptCore Framework

Posted by pudge on Sunday June 16, 2002 @11:22PM 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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What's it for... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-17 03:56 · 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...