Hi Michael, SproutCore is definitely on my radar, but I haven't yet found the time to look closely at it. Every time I try to check out their reference documentation, the site is pretty sluggish. Hopefully they'll recover from the Slashdot effect soon enough.
As a long time Cocoa and WebObjects programmer (since the OPENSTEP days), aspects of SproutCore's design are appealingly familiar to me. In terms of interoperability, Fluid's component-based approach is pretty flexible. Our stuff should generally cooperate well with nearly any JavaScript toolkit out there. I don't particularly agree with the comments from SproutCore's creator about most JavaScript toolkits being limited to "static pages with a widget here and there." He may, however, be getting at a more interesting point about some gaps in the way a lot of JavaScript is currently written. There's certainly room for more appication or binding infrastructure on the client-side. I imagine the ideal is a structure that takes into account the fact that the application is actually a product of careful blending of client and server-side concerns. I'll suspend judgement on SproutCore's particular approach until I've had some time to learn more about it. Colin On 17-Jun-08, at 9:48 AM, Michael Feldstein wrote: > Hello all, > > I just ran across SproutCore (http://www.sproutcore.com/), Apple's > Open Source AJAX framework, released under the MIT license. From the > web site: > SproutCore is for applications that want to adopt this new “thick” > client model for building apps on the web. If you are creating > static pages with a widget here and there, then SproutCore is > probably too much for you and another framework such as YUI, Dojo, > or Mootools will do the trick. > > If you have built desktop applications in the past and you would > like to bring that same experience to the web, however, then you > will feel right at home with SproutCore. > > If you are building web applications today and you are finding the > constant pressure to deliver more “app-like” features is not only > difficult but less fun to write, then SproutCore can help you find > your joy again. > Just curious: Is this something that the Fluid team has looked at? > Any thoughts about where it fits in (if at all) to your agenda? --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
