The Sad Mac is Reincarnated

In the form of a folder in the Google Chrome browser, of course.

Cappuccino

Cappuccino was released today. What a day it's been. I have to say that it really is brilliantly thought out. Probably the part that is most interesting is the concept of toll-free bridging. In my experience, javascript has been somewhat lacking in back-end; a need that can be easily filled by a framework such as jquery or json. Objective-J extends normal javascript types: var array = [[CPArray alloc] init]; and var array = new Array(); are exactly the same. Simply amazing.

Objective-J was obviously designed for web applications, not web sites. You don't touch the DOM or CSS; Objective-J does that for you with a lot of absolute positioning. Plus, who wants to wait for each page of a web site to load? Although Objective-J code can be compiled into Javascript, it still has a fair bit of loading time, and a separate HTTP connection has to be opened for each source file. Objective-J is very obviously oriented towards rich internet applications.

Object oriented, Model-View-Controller web frameworks are the way of the future in web application design. People can do amazing things with Javascript. These frameworks make it easy to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Behind the Chrome

Google Chrome was released today, and it has two features installed by default that have synergy with each other: Google Gears, and WebKit CSS Animations. In every version. Google's goal in Chrome is to facilitate the development of rich web applications using Gears that still probably will run in other browsers, but will look extra-snazzy in Chrome.