Daniel Eran Dilger
In response to my articles outlining the potential of the SproutCore framework in developing a new type of desktop class web applications, a number of critics have attacked the technology based on poking at some simple demos on the web from odd versions of Internet Explorer or the Camino browser. That forces me to point out that not only has Apple been using SproutCore to drive the slick .Mac Web Gallery for several months, but SproutIt has been using the framework in production in Mailroom, which has been used to manage email for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
I did an interview with Justin Young of TalkingHeadTV.com, where we talked about what SproutCore does and how it relates to Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight. Here’s the YouTube links:

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The second myth of Snow Leopard:

Apple is dropping support for 32-bit Intel Macs because Snow Leopard is 64-bit.

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