David Emery OnlineCappuccino is not designed for building web sites
25 February 2009
Them: With Cappuccino, you don’t need to know HTML. You’ll never write a line of CSS. You don’t ever have interact with DOM.
Ben: Everything that’s wrong about Cappuccino, quoted from their own about page. I actually get angry about this.
Ben has hit the nail on the head here. Cappuccino and the new Atlas IDE are both very impressive feats of coding, but are based on completely faulty thinking. I haven’t used a ‘web app’ that behaves like a desktop app that I like – look at Gmail, Flickr, Facebook et al – and I’m not sure why anybody (other then desktop application developers) would think it’s a good idea.
Spotify is a good example – there are quite a few competitors with similar offerings – iMeem, We7 etc – but because they’re a desktop app the user experience is so much better. Some things should be in the browser, some things shouldn’t.
And don’t get me started on the whole “you don’t need to know html/css/js” malarky – it’s akin to calling yourself a graphic designer and using PowerPoint and clipart.
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