Posts by Howie 3 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2007
I was at Barlcays Wealth a month ago when they cut rates by 10%. Our agency ended up absorbing the cut. Other agencies didn't, and several contractors walked. I left anyway as it was an awful project with Accenture's paws all over it. hmm.. never saw their rates getting cut... even the 'consultant' who turned up every day without a desk to sit at until one of the contractors left!
SproutCore seems to me to be Apple's answer to Google's Web Toolkit (GWT). Rather than using Ruby, it uses Java, but the results are the same - a set of HTML + Javascript files. GWT goes further with the ability to itegrate into back-end Java server code plus ful ability to debug prior to exporting to Javascript. Apple has some way to go in this toolkit arena, but it my view this is clearly an iPhone v Android web application battleground.
Perhaps someone at El Reg who does not think that JavaScript is 'an annoying scripting language with aspirations of objecthood' should have attempted this task. This article seems to be a bitter stab at what the author considers a weak language, rather than an insight into builidng iPhone apps.
Having read to the end, it is clear that the author is unwilling or incapable of learning what is in-fact a very powerful language. I've not yet written an iPhone app, but if I did, I'm sure I would not need to use iFrames in my HTML markup, nor worry about page onload events, or the XmlHttpRequestObject. I'd use one of the popular JavaScript frameworks to do the plumbing - JQuery, Prototype, Dojo, and get rid of those global variables and functions.. maybe even use objects.
Bill. Stick to being a journalist. You're clearly not a developer. Mind you, based on this article, I'm not sure which you are worse at
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