High-Performance JavaScript¶
Note
This was an awful talk. It could have been better, but the phrase, “Hey I travelled 1000 miles to get you guys to contribute to my unknown framework”” rankled badly with people like me who traveled 3000+ miles to attend.
- Plan for 200 millisecond latency
by Erich Ocean¶
- JavaScript can be used on mobile devices
- Much, much faster
- Flash, etc has limitations
About sproutcore¶
- The only HTML 5 application framework adopted by and now developed at Apple
- Open source
- Developers write standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Is seen as successor to NeXTStep/Cocoa
- First cloud application framework
The HTML 5 Stack¶
- Webkit (FF, Chrome)
- fast JS engine
- SproutCore application framework
- Favorite DOM library (jQuery, YUI, Dojo, Extjs)
Django’s opportunity¶
- Client-server interaction in the cloud is hard
- Django has a very well designed ORM that exposes meta-informantion
- Sproutcore has a well designed ORM that makes use of meta-information