Comments on: Coherent: Cocoa Databinding for Ajax

By: trek

trek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:04:29 +0000

Apple was fairly diligent about getting the code off the net despite it’s Apache License. A version is on github:

http://github.com/trek/coherentjs/tree/master

By: jeffwatkins

jeffwatkins — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:15:06 +0000

Dylan, thanks very much for pointing out the WebKit/Cocoa bindings work. It looks pretty cool and I wonder whether I can hook Coherent into that when its running in WebKit.

However, as the previous poster mentioned, the WebKit/Cocoa bindings bridge only works when you’re running inside a Cocoa app rather than just any Web application.

Charles has done really great work with SproutCore, he’s just had different challenges to solve. He’s chosen to focus mainly on long-lived single page applications.

Coherent is intended to be just another tool in your box. It’s great at creating loosely coupled data-bound widgets, but it really doesn’t force you to structure your application in any particular way. You can use Coherent in a long-lived single-page app (I have for several vertical Web apps) or on short-lived pages as part of a high-traffic e-commerce Web site.

By: tlrobinson

tlrobinson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:39:51 +0000

Dylan – your link refers to using WebKit within Cocoa applications; Coherent looks like a JavaScript framework very similar to SproutCore.

By: Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:45:40 +0000

I’m curious to know how this compares/contrasts/integrates with http://www.jonathansaggau.com/blog/2007/03/webkit_and_cocoa_bindings.html ?

By: Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:28 +0000

Great to see Jeff’s labor of love come live.

Lots of great stuff in there!