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Cocoa for Windows Flash Killer = SproutCore

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    Future of the Web

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    Watching the grand convergence of the desktop, the server, devices, and the Web. Topics addressed include events and emerging trends in universal interoperability, standards development, SOA, Clouds, Web-Stacks, RIA run-times, etc.

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Saved by 10 people (2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-06-15


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on 2008-06-18 by garyedwards

wikiWORD!!!!! The wikiWORD plug-in for MSWORD is designed to produce open standard compliant WebKit "fixed/flow" documents (strucutred HTML-CSS-DOM-JavaScript).

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Adobe has already proven its incompetence in delivering Flash for the Mac (and really any platform outside of Windows), and I shouldn’t need to recap Microsoft’s historical readiness to destroy anything that isn’t Windows.

Highlighted by louise6380

SproutCore brings the values of Leopard’s Cocoa to the web, domesticating JavaScript into a functional application platform with lots of free built-in support for desktop features.

Being based on open web standards and being open source itself means SproutCore will enable developers to develop cross platform applications without being tied to either a plugin architecture or its vendor.

Sitting on top of web standards will also make it easy for Apple and the community to push SproutCore ahead without worrying about incompatible changes to the underlying layers of Windows, a significant problem for the old Yellow Box or some new Cocoa analog. SproutCore also lives in a well known security context, preventing worries about unknown holes being opened up by a new runtime layer.

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on 2008-06-18 by garyedwards

Great point! Sadly there isn't a web ready alternative to MSOffice. Nor is MSOffice web ready. Leastways not in the sense of an open web capability. MSOffice HTML is proprietary. Worse, the MSOffice SDK has a conversion component for converting MSOffice-OOXML <> XAML "fixed/flow". XAML is a Microsoft proprietary technology tha tcompliments Silverlight, smart tags and LINQ as core components of the Windows Presentation Foundation layer (WPF).