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Cappuccino Apps and the Web Store

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After only a few hours eight Cappuccino apps have shown up on the Google web store!

If you have an application built with Cappuccino on the Web Store it would be great if you added a line to the description to allow us to find all the Cappuccino apps, something like "Built with cappuccino.org" would be perfect.

I'm in love with Mockingbird....such a great product for a non-designer to make mockups that look sharp.

I know it's early, but so far the Chrome Web Store confuses me a little bit, in that almost all the ones I tried were nothing more than a bigger shortcut to the regular website/webapp. I feel that anything that's on the web could be in the Web Store with just the right manifest file.

So isn't it like all Cappuccino Apps could be in the Web Store right away? Does the Web Store make them that much different? (I do see that PicsEngine integrates single sign-on with a Google account, but this is relatively minor in my opinion)

Many of the included apps (like NYTimes, Amazon, etc.) have Chrome Web Store apps that are separate from their regular websites. (Of course, it's debatable whether these app versions are preferable to their standard website counterparts.) The Web Store team emphasized to us the discovery aspect of the store. They also seem to be pushing Chrome Web Store payments as a way to increase paid conversions through one-click purchases from users who need only enter their CC details once.

Some of the Cappuccino apps I've seen are very nice but the language really seems like a step in the wrong direction from Javascript. JS has its warts, to be sure, but I still find it a lot more readable than Obj-J.

That's a valid opinion, but I can't say I agree (and I imagine you would be surprised if I did).

There are plenty of reasons why Objective-J is a good idea, but the single most important one in terms of readability is the structure it adds.

There are so many different ways to do the most basic things in JavaScript that reading or sharing code between authors (often even within a project) can be a nightmare. There are lots of times where it really doesn't matter, but when you are writing large scale applications, which often run in the tens or hundres of thousands of lines of code, it makes a big difference.

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