At this stage in the game, I’m sure you’re all aware about Apple and Adobe’s plight over Flash support on both the iPod touch, iPhone and now the iPad. What may not have been all that clear though is why Apple was closing the door on Adobe.
Sure, Steve Jobs told us why in an open letter last month, but some are now saying that isn’t the full story – in fact, far from it. @AppleInsider reports that Apple has been hard at work on it’s own version of Flash technology. Dubbed Gianduia, the technology is Apple’s new client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, which first saw the light of day at Apple’s WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference) last year.
In fact, as the site notes, the company has been using it in a number of elements on it’s website design, including the ‘One to One’ program, iPhone reservation system, and its Concierge service.
Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is “essentially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters,” according to a tweet by developer Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch. After watching the NDA demo Apple gave for the new framework at WOWODC last year, Rentzch also tweeted, “Blown away by Gianduia. Cappuccino, SproutCore and JavascriptMVC have serious competition. Serious.
Like Cappuccino, Gianduia takes a Cocoa-inspired name (Cocoa is itself a Java-inspired name) to describe its role as a way for Cocoa developers to bring their skills to rich online applications built using web standards, with no need for a proprietary web plugin like Flash or Silverlight. “
[via @AppleInsider]
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