Dashcode 3.0 - the precursor to Gianduia - A Flash Killer?

All right beside the cheesy title of this blog entry I did play a few weeks ago with Dashcode 3.0 to build an iPad app for a customer. After seeing the WWDC 2009 presentation on DashCode 3.0 I realized how much leaps and bounds DashCode made over the last two years. Checkout the quick screen cast demo here after and let me know what you think!

After looking into Dashcode 3.0 and doing some online search I found out that Jeff Watkins created several years ago coherentjs, a Cocoa inspired javascript framework, and he joined Apple to work on Dashcode. As you can see on http://coherentjs.org/ he since left Apple and revived Coherent as a multiple browser framework.

Based on the fact that WWDC 2010 is around the corner is it to be expected that the next version of Dashcode will be announced and among other things should provide an enhanced visual editor, enhanced frameworks, more components, improved datasource support, css transitions support, and iPad support. It could well be that Dashcode 4 is in fact what some refer to as Gianduia. The good thing is that we will find out soon.

Now let’s quickly look at what Dashcode currently offers, it’s pretty cool:

Dashcode 3.0 – An IDE to build HTML apps for iPad, iPhone and Safari from daniel wanja.

Posted by Daniel Wanja Mon, 10 May 2010 21:05:19 GMT

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  1. ilanb about 15 hours later:

    Stop say killer Flash….

    “improved datasource support” : json or xml pffff realy crap !!!

    dashcode is made for iphone and $pad not killer flash !

    you say that just for the buzz.

  2. Daniel Wanja about 16 hours later:

    Hi Ilanb, you are correct that I just said that for the buzz but I also showed what I think is the best tool out there to visually build HTML5+CSS apps to let the reader be judge. Personally I provide software development services and will continue building Flex sites for a long time and hopefully also HTML5 sites in the future.

  3. ilanb about 18 hours later:

    Hi Daniel,

    I use Flex, flash and dashcode too :-)
    My post are just to say I would like all bloggers stop this stupidity to compare html5 javascript with flash…