Native iOS 7 Styling with CSS - Pixate 2.0 Released

Hi Pixate, looking just at your homepage, I had a hard time understanding what your product does. However, your kickstarter video is awesome http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-...

You should have something similar on your main home page.

Is it just me or do none of the intro pages explain what Pixate actually is?

I see the terms UI framework and CSS, so I think Bootstrap. But then I see developer API and engine so I think Sencha Touch.

NUI is similar and OSS: https://github.com/tombenner/nui

OT but does anyone have any idea how much work it would be to port NUI or similar to Objective-J/Cappuccino? I really want to use Cap, but it's not designer friendly to theme and the default theme is looking a bit long in the tooth.

Wow, I had a hard time figuring out what it does, even after clicking through 9 pages (still quite don't know).

I'm really curious about this but I can't find any examples on the website.

Even in the documentation section, the Getting Started and Styling Reference both 404.

I've used Pixate a lot in my last app (client work), and I have mixed feelings. In general I love the idea (I'm a Kickstarter backer) but I had lots of small issues and found the documentation quite lacking. I don't have particular examples right off the bat, but I distinctly remember that I had issues getting gradients working correctly, and that borders did only work for all sides at the same time, while the documentation clearly has border-left, border-right, etc. But just setting one or two of these doesn't do anything. These may have been bugs in prior beta releases, but there was no documentation on this whatsoever.

There's also a help forum where people can ask questions and people reply on it. I could not figure out to actually read the answers. you can only read parts of it if you search the answers. I may be really stupid here, but I found nothing I could click that would open the thread and show me the answers to the questions. I may be really dumb here, but I just gave up. NEVERMIND: I tried again, it is working now. Maybe it just wasn't working when I tried it, sigh.

Cool idea! There's ton of broken links on the website tho.

http://www.pixate.com/docs/framework/ios/2.0/getting-started... Half of the links in the bottom are broken.

Is there any performance considerations to considerate when using Pixate? How fast is the CSS parsing and rendering?

This framework is excellent. I used it to style my iOS7 game[1] and it's hard to even go back to native styling. I'm compiling all of my CSS via LESS and then using the CSS as embedded themes.

[1] - http://appstore.com/xo9

Just to clear things: Pixate is a native framework (iOS, and Android coming soon) which let you style your application using CSS. Their ability to execute is awesome and they're moving at the speed of light. And with Titanium SDK support.

After reading the buzzword heavy and (intentionally?) confusing site, I'm reminded of the parody Color pitch deck:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364128

What kind of CSS framework doesn't have a live demo on the site?

I have to download it to find out what it looks like, how it performs, and how it's written?

Lots of people are confused about this. You guys should have some css app layouts on your front page, along with photos of them on a phone.

So the trend now looks to be webifying the appification of the web.

Another cross-platform UI toolkit. Which using CSS.