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By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:07:25 +0000

Forgive my ignorance but at the beginning of the article it state that a drawback of regular Web apps was that they were “Unable to make use of much of iPhone’s functionality (like the GPS, camera, etc.)” and it kinda sounded like Atlas/Cappuccino was an answer to this.

Later it states: “The same limitations that apply to Javascript apply here, presumably – in other words, don’t expect to be throwing down ultra-rich OpenGL-based 3D games…”.

So… what about the GPS & camera functionality? They load up an image picker or something in the video but a quick search through Cappuccino’s api docs shows no mention of either GPS or camera – much of the talk about native functionality seems (intentionally?) ambiguous.

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:00:55 +0000

280 North does some pretty amazing stuff and I can’t wait to see what some intelligent developers are going to be able to do with cappuccino.

Another note, the “Open Source” book that they are making sounds pretty cool, but in essence isn’t it just a published wiki?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:56:34 +0000

Well MS might indeed create a good platform and tools but unfortunately for them a lot has changed in the programming and development world. It’s not the 90’s anymore. The younger crowd (unfortunately I’m not part of it anymore) will never touch any of that stuff. It’s all about these new javascript based tools (ajax, sproutcore, this Atlas product) and Adobe Flash for web AND mobile or RIA’s. The Android platform is too small to even be mentioned. The develop once and deploy everywhere is the future for sure, it’s just that microsoft won’t play much part in it.

By: Bart Czernicki

Bart Czernicki — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:13:22 +0000

This stuff is coming to Silverlight in a big way. Except you get to write once and automatically work with: dekstop, web and mobile.

Furthermore, you get to “leverage” Microsoft’s: data centers, search Live services, data services, BI/collaboration services, SkyDrive storage, Mesh sync services etc. Even though Microsoft has a way to catch up to Google in this space.

Microsoft has the Silverlight UI, the data services, the web presence that not many other companies can put together. This applies to Adobe Flash/Flex as well (which is a superior vanilla RIA, but what does it integrate with???).

I don’t see how there will be competition here IF (big IF) Microsoft does it right.

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By: ComputerGameDownload

ComputerGameDownload — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:15:54 +0000

Yeah very nice

By: Shaun Andrews

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:05:51 +0000

I was at FOWA Miami when Francisco gave his presentation. When he created and ran his app (both web and iPhone) using nothing but drag-and-drop, there were plenty of jaws on the floor. It was easily one of the highlights of the conference, and seemed to impress everyone I talked to. I’m looking forward to playing with Atlas when its out.

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:57:36 +0000

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By: rahul

rahul — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:43:15 +0000

pretty neat…very exciting…great job team 280 north. btw…love the name…

By: rahul

rahul — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:42:11 +0000

pretty neat…very exciting..great job team 280 north!! btw…love the name :-)

By: Jekar

Jekar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:55:50 +0000

Yes, and like X-code :)

By: fernyb

fernyb — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:43:59 +0000

That was cool! It’s like Interface Builder for the web.

By: Ross Boucher

Ross Boucher — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:42:12 +0000

PhoneGap gives you some access to the iPhone native features (though not everything), but that’s it. You still need to deal with the entire application on your own. Building with Atlas will give you the power of Cappuccino as well, and should let you build better apps faster.

By: Jeff McFadden

Jeff McFadden — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:20:18 +0000

There are already 4 apps in the appstore using PhoneGap, and I know of at least 5 more that are on the way right now. http://phonegap.com/projects

At least with PhoneGap apple hasn’t shown any prejudice (or knowledge for that matter) concerning this approach to apps.

PhoneGap has been powering apps in the AppStore since October 2008, so Atlas seems a bit behind the times perhaps. But I’d welcome any additional approaches available for developers!

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:45:19 +0000

I know the guys at http://www.motherapp.com launched something similar last year. They can generate native iPhone apps with plan HTML. Also generating native apps for windows mobile and blackberry.

check them out at web2expo san francisco.

By: fb3406485

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:24:29 +0000

There was a similar technology profiled on Webmonkey a while back called Phone Gap. A quick peek at its page looks like they also support Android and Blackberry: http://phonegap.com/

I would love to build iPhone apps using web technology. Does anyone know if Apple imposes any limitations on these sorts of frameworks? Do they have any prejudice against publishing Atlas/Phone Gap-derived apps?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:21:55 +0000

sound great. Note that http://www.phonegap.com already provides a similar solution, but with regular dashcode or javascript. Came out at iPhone Dev camp last year.