“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 about it,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
“As Apple’s public schedule for WWDC explained, ‘SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications. Learn how to combine SproutCore with HTML5’s standard offline data storage technologies to deliver a first-class user experience and exceptional performance in your web application,'” McLean reports.
“The secrets of SproutCore first tumbled out of the bag last fall, when it was revealed that .Mac Web Gallery had been built using the framework. Originally developed by Charles Jolley of SproutIt for use in his online email manager named Mailroom, the SproutCore framework goes beyond other JavaScript frameworks because it is designed to build entire rich applications on the web rather than just adding some animation or sizzle to web pages… Apple didn’t just use SproutCore, it also contributed major performance updates and added lots of new functionality,” McLean reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Combined with the SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter, this has excellent potential.
“SproutCore” ??!!!… it’s still time for them to change the name. Very ugly.
Daniel E. Dilger covered this 2 days ago on Roughly Drafted.
I guess the word is ‘spreading’ about SproutCore…
MaWo: ‘served’. As in, ‘what McLean just got…”
It does sound like a volunteer youth program at the Green Giant company.
How about making SroutCore a Ruby framework?
MDN sucks. How long does it take to debug the homepage? Why do no other professional site have this problem?
A luck for M$ employees… All chairs around Balmer are made of foam since few weeks!
@No more BS: stysheet has been tweaked for the WWDC… ;p
Daniel E. Dilger = Prince McLean
(one in the same)
Daniel Eran Dilger = Prince McLean , right?
<< MDN sucks. How long does it take to debug the homepage? Why do no other professional site have this problem? >>
I like the “new” homepage. Loads fast, informative, no Barack OsamaBama ads- perfect.
Nice job MDN- i knew you could do it.