SproutCore Blog

okito
February 1
“ I expect music and to some extent video to stay in iTunes or similar venues. Terrified book publishers who want their DRM will likely stay in the iBooks zone, though hopefully Apple will let braver publishers in there without DRM. Customers will expect to find “books” there. It’s also clear that there will always be applications, notably games, which demand native code - Objective C on the iPad - to achieve the fastest possible response time, draw intricate graphics, or bind tightly to iPad features. There’s a future for all of those things, in their particular venues.
But for “content”, especially content that combines text with audio, video, pictures, and interactivity, web-style development has a tremendous advantage.
Arise, web developers! Our time has come to dominate!
Web developers can rule the iPad - O’Reilly Radar
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okito
January 29

Testing and auto-generated ids in SproutCore

martinottenwaelter:

If you’re trying to automate tests of your SproutCore application with Selenium, for example, you’ll realise that the HTML element ids are automatically generated. They change every now and then and break all your tests.

To get rid of this problem, you can override the layerId method of certain view classes to generate a stable, and human readable, id.

The following code takes the view hierarchy, and generates an id based on the parents’ names. For example, the mainPage.mainView.someOtherView.theTargetView view will be given the mmsome.theTargetView id.

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okito
January 25
Tasks

Tasks Screenshot

In case you haven’t been following the mailing list, Suvajit Gupta and some associates have been working on a really nifty software planning tool called Tasks.  They are using Tasks to plan some large software projects internal to their own company and they are also adding features we need to use Tasks to manage the SproutCore project as well.

Thanks to their hard work, we now have an alpha version of Tasks up and running with all of the SproutCore issues ported over from Lighthouse at tasks.sproutcore.com.

Please head on over and give it a try.  Then leave a comment here or get on the SproutCore mailing list and let us know what you think.

There are still a number of rough edges that need to be polished, but it sure is nice to finally have a really fast web-based bug tracking system.
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okito
January 2
“ So again, the question isn’t Sproutcore vs. jQuery. In fact, you can (and probably will) use jQuery if you develop Sproutcore apps. The question really isn’t even Sproutcore vs. Flash vs. Silverlight, but it’s so easy to frame it up like that. The point of Sproutcore is that it provides the beginnings of an end-to-end application development strategy in HTML5 that competes with Adobe’s Flash Platform (Flash + Flex + Cairngorm + FlexUnit) and Silverlight’s presentation layer and tools.
Thoughts On Sproutcore and App Dev In General « lukesh +interactive
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