Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps

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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[mrsteveman1]

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Re:Roughly Drafted==Spam

[0xdeadbeef]

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Re:Roughly Drafted==Spam

[Jeff DeMaagd]

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Re:RoughlyDrafted

[DECS]

... from the mouth of an anonymous coward!

Re:There are 6 million iPhones out there

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

many tens of millions of subsidized instant eWaste phones

Speaking of eWaste, it's a pity Apple doesn't:

1) Not use toxic chemicals like brominated flame retardants and Polyvinyl Chloride in the iPhone (Nokia & Ericsson don't).
2) Offer free take-back for the iPhone (Nokia & Ericsson do).
3) Make a user-replacable battery (Nokia & Ericsson do).

So, how exactly is the (also-subsidized) iPhone superior from an eWaste perspective to its competitors?

Re:DECS

[Admiral Ag]

Actually no, but thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that DECS was DED until I read your post. The sig I picked up months ago because the original made me spit coffee over my monitor.

I am a regular reader both RoughlyDrafted and TUAW. I don't care about past spats, but I like both blogs.