Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code

Project Ideas

• Accessibility
  • Make Cappuccino more accessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies
  • Improve keyboard navigation support throughout the frameworks
  • How effective will implementing some or all of WAI-ARIA be at achieving this goal?
  • Aside from ARIA, what technologies do we wish we had, and how can we either “fake them”, or convince browsers to implement them?
• Core Data style framework
  • Object relational mapping, with server side persistence.
  • Either core-data inspired, or maybe ActiveRecord inspired
  • Should be optimized for intelligently fetching and caching data locally on the client
  • Ideally, would integrate with HTML5/Gears Local Storage automatically
• Replace the Objective-J tokenizer regex with a better one (ANTLR, hand-made?)
  • Having a better parser would also make it easier to build interesting new development tools, like static (or even dynamic) code analysis and type checking
• AppKit Canvas based renderer (as alternative to the DOM renderer, think Bespin)
  • Canvas is just one potential alternative rendering platform too. Think SVG, or even Flash.
• Better debugging support → integrated into WebKit Inspector
  • The WebKit team is interested in making it easier to modify the web inspector.
  • It would be great to have built in support for Objective-J in WebKit and Firebug
  • Really interested in other dev tools, especially documentation tools and code analysis