Theocacao: OpenStep in Actionscript?

OpenStep in Actionscript?

I just found ActionStep, which seems interesting in concept:

ActionStep is an Actionscript 2.0 implementation of a subset of the OpenStep Application Kit. The intent is to create an open-source component framework for writing Rich Internet Applications for the Flash Player.

I'm actually not a big fan of the Flash application itself, but I am a fan of spreading around the OpenStep-style object model. Considering Actionscript is based on Javascript, I wonder how plausible it would be to end up with a pure Javascript implementation instead of something that's tied to Flash?

OpenStep in Actionscript?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 — 3 comments below

Greg — Aug 20, 05 341

Flash developers using Mac OS X also should take a look at the Motion Twin Actionscript Compiler by mtasc.org !

Jeff Watkins — Aug 21, 05 342

Scott, it's funny you should mention this. I've been working on a pure Javascript implementation of Cocoa Bindings and it's working out really well. It's already been used in one product (an embedded browser-based application on Windows) and the next version is much closer to real Cocoa Bindings.

I've a very short write-up and demo (not enough time to do a better write up) called DHTML Binding Example.

I can't wait to plug this into some of the XMLHttpRequest work I've been doing. It'll be so cool to have a Cocoa-like development environment all running Javascript.

Scott Stevenson — Aug 21, 05 343

Jeff, this looks very interesting. If you're keeping a list of people to contact when the library is released, please add me to it.

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