Cappuccino is a framework which makes it easy to create advanced web apps. With just a few lines of code you can have an app built with full undo and redo, truly amazing table views, drag and drop and every modern UI appearance and behaviour you might expect on the desktop.
When you program in Cappuccino, you don't need to concern yourself with the complexities of document-focused web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM. Cappuccino is focused on making apps and the unpleasantries of building complex cross browser applications are abstracted away for you.
Objective-J Language
Objective-J is a powerful object-oriented language which compiles to run in the browser. Because Objective-J is a superset of JavaScript, it's easy to mix and match. Objective-J extends JavaScript with traditional inheritance and Smalltalk/Objective-C style dynamic dispatch.
Stunning Controls
Cappuccino's AppKit ships with a huge number of controls, each polished far beyond what's expected on the web. You can quickly build complex apps without reinventing the wheel every time you need a scrollable, sortable, virtual, auto-saves-column-settings table view.
* Fish widget not actually included.
Interface Builder
If you have a Mac you can build your Cappuccino user interface in Xcode's Interface Builder, just like you would in Cocoa. Skip the tweak-coordinated-rebuild-test cycle and just place labels and buttons where you need them. The XcodeCapp utility will do the rest.
Latest Version: 0.9.7 (November 28, 2013)
Beyond the starter pack, Cappuccino comes with a number of tools to make it easy to create new applications. With or without the starter pack, you can install all of Cappuccino and accompanying tools with the following command:
curl https://raw.github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino/v0.9.7/bootstrap.sh >/tmp/cb.sh && bash /tmp/cb.sh
Your download includes a README file with a few quick tips on how to get started.
You'll also probably want to check out our tutorials section. The get started one is designed specifically for figuring out what to do the very first time you download Cappuccino.
Getting the Source
If you'd like the full source, you can check it out from our GitHub repository, or clone it with this command:
git clone git://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino.git
Learn more about contributing.
Highlights
An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino
I can see the allure of Objective-J / Cappuccino for building desktop-like Web applications. It gives you a very high level abstraction over the browser. No more DOM. No more CSS layouts, which can be the bane of your existence for a complicated and dynamic layout.
Dion Almaer, Ajaxian
From the Blog
After nearly a year's worth of work we are truly excited to introduce Cappuccino 0.9.7, a major update to the Cappuccino framework featuring a massive number of new features.
Since Cappuccino is such a wide framework, ranging from a low foundations such as our Objective-J compiler, all the way up to the full featured, fully themable UI kit AppKit, it's incredibly hard to summarise all the changes. But here's our best stab at it:
Cup - The File Upload Framework
A common need for Cappuccino apps is the ability to upload files. Until now, the only native Cappuccino upload solution was DeepDropUpload by David Cann. While DeepDropUpload works, it hasn't been updated in two years, and it doesn't integrate directly with Interface Builder.
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