Comments on: SproutCore: Demos Start to Prove the Point http://iconnectdots.com/2008/08/developers-i-kn.html Guidance, Insight and Ideas in a Time of Accelerating Change Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Dowdell http://iconnectdots.com/2008/08/developers-i-kn.html/comment-page-1#comment-123 John Dowdell Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:30:40 +0000 http://iconnectdots.com.s11974.gridserver.com/2008/08/sproutcore-demos-start-to-prove-the-point.html#comment-123 Hi Steve, a JavaScript framework is a way to code once atop various proprietary JavaScript runtimes. You're still constrained to what the various proprietary JavaScript runtimes will allow you to do. A framework just gives you an easier way to find the intersection of their capabilities. (A "sandbox" defines stuff you can't do... local file access, interapp communication, etc. The browsers have sandboxes, just as the cross-browser plugins do.) jd/adobe Hi Steve, a JavaScript framework is a way to code once atop various proprietary JavaScript runtimes. You’re still constrained to what the various proprietary JavaScript runtimes will allow you to do. A framework just gives you an easier way to find the intersection of their capabilities.

(A “sandbox” defines stuff you can’t do… local file access, interapp communication, etc. The browsers have sandboxes, just as the cross-browser plugins do.)

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