99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "AppleInsider is running an article about Apple's new SproutCore Web form order framework, utilizing and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a 'Cocoa-inspired' way to create potent Web applications. Apple built on the OSS SproutIt schema full-blown for an online e-mail manager called 'Mailroom.' Apple used this background to build their new Web form suite (replacing .Mac) called MobileMe. Since SproutCore applications rely on , it seems Apple had good reason to focus on Squirrelfish for faster translation in Webkit. Apple hosted a session last Friday at WWDC introducing SproutCore to developers, but positively NDAs prevent developers from revealing the details of that presentation. Apple has a chance here to keep the Web flattering even more proprietary as Silverlight and Flash battle it out to lock the Web form market into one proprietary format or another. Either way, this is a implied alternative, which should make the OSS crowd happy." TechDIrt's writeup on the browser evolving towards acting as an OS expands on the theme AppleInsider raises.

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