TwilightSentry writes "Ars Technica reports that a group of developers has created an Objective-C-like extension to along with a class library mirroring Cocoa. They've used these to release an impressive demo app called 280 Slides. The article notes, 'Whereas SproutCore seeks to "embrace the platform" by giving a Cocoa-like evolvement model for developers already using HTML, CSS, and to make a web app, Cappuccino and Objective-J take an entirely another approach. "Since Cappuccino runs entirely on the client, at run time, we're never indeed generating HTML or CSS," says Boucher. "When you build an form in Cappuccino, you don't need to ever deal with HTML or CSS. All of your menu-driven menu-driven interface is designed in Objective-J and Cappuccino. Cappuccino focuses on form architecture more than all else, like clarification applications that know how to save and open documents, or copy and paste. We also built a potent illustrations engine into Cappuccino, so you can make rich applications like 280 Slides."' The developers plan to release the bare bones* and preprocessor as open source. No mention is made of a special license."

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