November 2009
4 posts
SproutCore (Client side web application...
SproutCore is the second framework I’ve used in my project to implement a trivial time tracking application in multiple client-side/rich frameworks. SproutCore, the framework behind Apple’s MobileMe, is one of the heavyweight contenders in the desktop-like web application arena. Originally released last year in version 0.9.x form, it has undergone major changes over the past year+ to...
Flex + REST => RestfulX (Client side web app...
The first client-side/rich web application framework I’m tackling in my attempt to explore various frameworks of this sort is RestfulX. While RestfulX is not well known yet, I decided to give it a go since it has an intriguing set of features:
Strong support for multiple RESTful backends (e.g. Rails, CouchDB)
Built on Flex
Uses Ruby for code generation and build tasks
Offline...
One server to rule them all
Previously I described a new project to explore a few different client-side/rich web application frameworks such as SproutCore and Cappuccino, by implementing a fairly trivial application in each of them.
In order to see just how loosely coupled this arrangement can be, I’ve implemented a fairly stock Rails application to serve as the back end for all of the front end implementations....
Thick and Rich: Exploring delicious client-side...
Web applications were originally (and necessarily) server-centric, using the web browser as a thin client that just displayed the view. As the use of AJAX has become popular, application behavior has crept onto the client, but is often achieved by Frankenstein methods such as serving HTML snippets with embedded JavaScript that provide some application behavior.
Over the past couple of years...