Comments on: PastryKit: An iPhone Webdev Library from … Apple

By: lisadmc

lisadmc — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:58:16 +0000

check this out
http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-on-iphone-ipod-touch/
demo http://cubiq.org/dropbox/abc/

By: iphonedevelopment

iphonedevelopment — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:04:16 +0000

Great resource. Its about time they made something like this sheesh! Thanks.

By: ryshaw

ryshaw — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:01:49 +0000

there is good discussion about this in this hacker news thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997508 also, in that thread you can see that I (and a bunch of other people) have pulled down the code, unobfuscated it and put it back up on github. go check it out.

By: InteractiveLogic

InteractiveLogic — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:03 +0000

unfortunately it sounds as if the framework is not officially released, but rather is a “stealth framework” developed internally, and would probably be inadvisable to use directly due to licensing issues (or lack thereof, which may be more dangerous).

any word on when/if this will be made available publicly on developer.apple.com? seems like it sure would be useful…

in the meantime, it’s definitely worthwhile perusing the js & css to get some ideas/insights.

By: albeik

albeik — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:25:34 +0000

The good thing about the code is that it’s not obfuscated. Here is a “reformatted” version of the code:

http://albeik.com/pastrykit/PastryKit-ug.js
http://albeik.com/pastrykit/PastryKit-ug.css

Still reading through the code for analysis…

By: Jordan1

Jordan1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:16:39 +0000

@devongovett:
PastryKit may have been written by another team separate from the Safari team, hence why fixed positioning wasn’t native. PastryKit has only really been used by iPhone’s tutorial/help app.

By: devongovett

devongovett — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:23:04 +0000

I wonder why Apple decided to create a JavaScript library for things like scrolling and fixed position elements instead of adding support to the browser itself. Seems a bit odd.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:57:54 +0000

Apple’s purchase of lala.com makes sense when you combine it with this library. Apple is going to launch a web-based version of itunes, and obviously this needs to work well on the iPhone. So, at the very least they’re going to use this in-house to build iTunes for web. Given that they usually release their in-house development tools, I would put reasonable odds on this shipping to a wider audience.