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Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps

Posted by kdawson on from the mmmm-cocoa dept.

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "AppleInsider is running an article about Apple's new SproutCore Web application development framework, utilizing Javascript and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a 'Cocoa-inspired' way to create powerful Web applications. Apple built on the OSS SproutIt framework developed for an online e-mail manager called 'Mailroom.' Apple used this framework to build their new Web application suite (replacing .Mac) called MobileMe. Since SproutCore applications rely on JavaScript, it seems Apple had good reason to focus on Squirrelfish for faster JavaScript interpretation in Webkit. Apple hosted a session last Friday at WWDC introducing SproutCore to developers, but obviously NDAs prevent developers from revealing the details of that presentation. Apple has a chance here to keep the Web becoming even more proprietary as Silverlight and Flash battle it out to lock the Web application market into one proprietary format or another. Either way, this is a potential alternative, which should make the OSS crowd happy." TechDIrt's writeup on the browser evolving towards acting as an OS expands on the theme AppleInsider raises.

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  1. Re:Roughly Drafted==Spam by Gewalt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait a minute... Did you just post on a blog that some other blog doesn't like its competitor blog and that somehow this other blog is supposed to be able to decide which blogs are harmful to me? ...whiney fanboy indeed...

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  2. Re:lockin by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure why you brought it up, or why you had so much to say about so very little, but I'm sure that I speak for all of us when I say thank you. Truly a man for your time and place.

  3. tagging retards... by thekm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tags on the article at time of posting: apple, rails, ruby, rubyonrails (tagging beta)

    ...is ruby really that lame that people are tagging unrelated articles to grassroots this bitch into existence?...

  4. fixed by Paul+Rose · · Score: 2, Funny

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  5. Re:Hi Daniel. by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just how many accounts do you have on slasdot? One more than you, Mr. AC.
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    Lars T.

    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck