Objective-j is an application development language and framework that allows for plugin-free development of web 2.0 apps using JavaScript. It implements language features through a dynamic pre-processor for JavaScript. No HTML or CSS is required. Objective-j mixes with JavaScript and uses data types like Objective-j arrays with JavaScript and vice versa. The framework emulates Cocoa elements like CoreGraphics and CoreAnimation, and is called Cappucino. A premier demo is the 280Slides presentation app available at 280Slides.com.

1. What is Objective-j? Application development language and Framework for plug-in free development of Web 2.0 Apps based on JavaScript engine. Language features implemented as dynamic pre-processor alled "Dynamic Pre-Interpretation" for JavaScript. No HTML or CSS required. Mix Objective-j and JavaScript and use various data types such as Objective-j arrays with JavaScript and vice-versa. Framework is an emulation of core elements of Apple's Cocoa such as CoreGraphics and CoreAnimation called Cappucino. Premier demo application is a presentation application called 280Slides available at 280Slides.com

2. What can you do with Objective-j? Anything that JavaScript can do! Plus you have the full power of Cappucin.

3. What else can you do with Objective-j?

4. What can't you do with Objective-j? Not many things. What Web 2.0 needs is a powerful, modern graphics and control framework above JavaScript which abstracts the variations of browsers, such that the very goodness of desktop app design can be brought to the web. Yummy!

5. What shouldn't you do with Objective-j?

6. What does this mean for Userplane? I don't know. But this is the coolest thing, in the Web space, I've seen since the first demos of Macromedia Shockwave. The impact is the native use of the built-in capabilities of browsers to create desktop quality apps. True, thinnest of the thin clients. Windows, Mac, Linux, Whatever. We can think of something.

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