appleinsider.com — One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled "Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore." While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can't stop talking abou
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mlavergnJun 16, 2008
Nice!!! How about some XCode 3.1+x integration?
chaduJun 16, 2008
any action done using those widgets causes a beachball on my Firefeox 2 install on this Macbook Pro with 3GB ram... any reason why?
streakJun 16, 2008
Now you know why Apple has been pushing Safari performance so heavily, why Apple expanded Safari onto the Windows platform, why Apple was originally against native apps on the iPhone and pushing web apps instead, and why Apple hasn't said boo about Adobe Flash on the iPhone. The original iPhone was just a little ahead of its time--and incited market demand much more than expected--as far as Apple's longer-term aspirations are concerned.
posureJun 17, 2008
Its a good start, but based on the demos, this library is still far from stable/complete.
mrbitchJun 17, 2008
You have just placed a spot light on why Apple is doing this.Google & Apple will both lose BIG TIME if Adobe and Microsoft are able to lock people in with their web dev technologies ( Adobe with Flash + Air, Microsoft with SilverLight ).Google needs web pages to be easy to index & search. Both Adobe & MS are trying to kill easy indexing of web sites.It is in both Google AND Apple's best interests to join together and push open web dev platforms (as opposed to the closed and proprietary web dev platforms from Adobe & MS).
robmcmJun 17, 2008
The HTML code generated is awful, there is no symantics for even simple things, like using the Label tag for labels! Another funny thing is it doesn't work on the iPhone.... let alone other mobile devices!This reminds me of .net frame work, developing things for IE on windows only, and adding specific things to IE as needed rather than using web standards!Sorry but I really hope this gets a web standards refresh.. or dies
scrufflesJun 18, 2008
Its only similar to GWT in that its a component framework that outputs html & javascript. GWT code is written in Java. From a programmer's perspective, it's an entirely different thing. Sprout is as similar to GWT as it is to WebForms or JSF. A better comparison would be Ext JS.Interestingly enough, Ext JS (which is a set of JS libraries) has been wrapped in GWT stubs for use in GWT. I wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing happen with Sprout.
rakshayJun 25, 2008
but why
ukshadowJun 27, 2008
its built on rails. Kinda like how asp also has javascipting