Web apps don’t have to suck. Here’s proof . And here’s the annotated source .
Q Branch’s Vesper is a beautiful, simple, functional note-taking app, with design and attention to detail like I want every app to have. So, obviously, I decided to port it to SproutCore .
Two reasons. First, I wanted to combat the widespread notion that web apps are fundamentally crappy. There are loads of terrible ones, but they’re not bad because JavaScript is ( undeniably ) slow: most apps don’t need the full computational power of a C-level language. With the right toolkit, web apps can hold their own against most native apps, even and especially those like Vesper whose power is in beautiful design and sterling execution. Bad web apps are bad because they were built badly, with the wrong