Mocking^2 Bird
Mockingbird, a new wireframe webapp, boasts:
Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash needed.
John Gruber writes:
It’s a true web app (no Flash), written in Cappuccino
Gentlemen, your excitement over skipping Flash is hugely misplaced.
If you load the app, you can see custom scrollbars and navigation, a complete lack of accessibility, non-native controls, and all those other things that cause geeks to hate Flash. What, to the end user, is the benefit of this being done with JavaScript instead of Flash? You can get the patronage of the 0.000001% of web users who don’t have Flash installed? (Sadly, I don’t think Richard Stallman needs many wireframes drawn)
Gruber’s definition of “true web app” and mine greatly differ. Clue: If it’s completely unusable on the iPhone Safari browser, it doesn’t matter if it’s built in JavaScript, Flash or Microsoft Visual Fortran 2012. It’s not a “true web app”
