I think it's a shame that something as as unambiguous and nice to work with as, say, the Cocoa framework and MVC (using that example because of familiarity), was available for us web developers without trying to shoehorn it into javascript and the browser environment.
Having had a taste of native app development, it makes client side web development comparatively frustrating. We're continuously getting new features but little in the way of a more satisfying environment that can help bring all these parts together.
This is what makes me nowadays prefer work on native every time I am given the opportunity to do so.
Too many crazy web projects trying to shoehorn the desktop experience into the browser in a way that has to work the same across multiple browsers and operating systems, which leads to CSS/HTML/JavaScript hacks everywhere, with some customers discussing designs down to the pixel level.
Have you heard of Cappuccino? It's Cocoa for the web. You don't write javascript, you write Objective-J. It's pretty awesome. As a mac developer, I was immediately able to jump in and do cool stuff with it.
I'm not sure what the current state of the framework is, since the company that made it has been acquired, but it sure was a cool idea.
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I think it's a shame that something as as unambiguous and nice to work with as, say, the Cocoa framework and MVC (using that example because of familiarity), was available for us web developers without trying to shoehorn it into javascript and the browser environment.
Having had a taste of native app development, it makes client side web development comparatively frustrating. We're continuously getting new features but little in the way of a more satisfying environment that can help bring all these parts together.
This is what makes me nowadays prefer work on native every time I am given the opportunity to do so.
Too many crazy web projects trying to shoehorn the desktop experience into the browser in a way that has to work the same across multiple browsers and operating systems, which leads to CSS/HTML/JavaScript hacks everywhere, with some customers discussing designs down to the pixel level.
Have you heard of Cappuccino? It's Cocoa for the web. You don't write javascript, you write Objective-J. It's pretty awesome. As a mac developer, I was immediately able to jump in and do cool stuff with it.
I'm not sure what the current state of the framework is, since the company that made it has been acquired, but it sure was a cool idea.
http://www.cappuccino-project.org/