Frappuccino

A few years ago, my friend Austin Sarner and I were writing a user friendly content publishing system in Objective-J. We designed a majority of the controls and UI components using canvas and found it incredibly fast when the proper caching techniques were used. One of the components of the application I worked on was a text editor that resembled Apple's Pages software. The text editor was implemented entirely in canvas and would wrap live in response objects intersecting the text. Redrawing the text live was slow but we ended up finding a solution. We cached bitmaps of the characters, lines and paragraphs and only re-rendered areas of the canvas that changed. The code was open sourced and put on GitHub, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/austinsarner/Frappuccino/tree/master/Frap... P.S. There's also a really fast iPhoto-style me

CappCon had couple awesome demos using all canvas. Example is here: https://github.com/austinsarner/Frappuccino unfortunately it's pretty buggy since it was never finished (due to a lack of funding) I believe a video of it being used was shown in the single video of the talk we released, it can be found on the Cappuccino blog. Edit: here's a link to a video from very early on in development. http://db.tt/2YX8gpYx

Everything they show here is available as open source at: https://github.com/austinsarner/Frappuccino https://github.com/austinsarner/RunKit