Hi all, first post to the list. In a not-so-past life I was a
WebObjects developer, so perhaps I can shed a teeny bit of light on
this...
I wouldn't be surprised if Gianduia was released - Apple very recently
hired the lead developer of the defacto-standard open-source
WebObjects toolchain and of the largest set of open-source WebObjects
frameworks (the same person). They use WO heavily for many massively
strategic systems like the iTunes Store and the Apple Store (online
and retail)... WO's support for creating client-side UIs on par with
Cappuccino/SproutCore is essentially non-existent, so it's not a
stretch to think they'd want something that produces Cappuccino-esque
UI and also dovetails nicely with their existing codebase.
I've seen mention of Apple possibly using Gianduia for their iAd
content, and it's definitely already in public use on Apple's retail
store reservation app.
I doubt Apple's targeting Flash with Gianduia, but if people want to
think that, I don't think Apple would mind (unless of course it really
is just the WebObjects framework made to run in the client instead of
the server and not anything like Flash). But considering how long
they've been working on it, I suppose it's possible they could have
decided to go after Flash with it at the same time as being a general
purpose web application framework.
If you want to learn about what it Gianduia was a year ago you can buy
the WOWODC West 2009 videos, I'm told the Gianduia talk is part of
that package. I haven't seen it so I can't comment on it.
Jim
On May 8, 9:26 am, Randy Luecke <
rclconce...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's nothing special and not a story at all… It's old, and will never
> see the light of day (from the public's perspective)
>
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