280 North (YC Winter 08) speaks at FOWA (opens in new tab)

I'm working on porting a desktop app over to Cappuccino. It's important to remember that Cappuccino doesn't include all of the components found in the Cocoa frameworks yet. This makes it a little hard to port an app over directly.

For example, I just spent my weekend writing a few hundred lines of tableview code, since that's one of the classes that's missing from the framework. For my app, tableviews are essential.

I wouldn't expect my port to be done before December. Moving a desktop app over to the web isn't just a matter of slapping it in a browser. Some things have to be fundamentally redesigned to fit within a browser window.

Well I think its worth noting that the framework's only been out for about a month. Only so many people will have had time to even take a look at Cappuccino yet, much less create something new with it. Not to mention, 280 Slides is, as you said, a fairly complex app. Something of that complexity can't be put together overnight, even with Cappuccino.

If you look at the title you'll see that this is actually just the "highlights" reel. The actual talk given at FOWA went much further in depth into the actual technologies. Hopefully they will put this up too.

Sure there's a lot of web frameworks and libraries out there, but not many targeted at the far right side of the web "spectrum" he showed. There's Flex and Silverlight, if you don't mind being locked into proprietary runtimes that require a plugin install. There's GWT if you want to write Java...

The "winter" session begins in January, thus we were in the program beginning 10 months ago.