BoltJS: another secret part of Facebook's Spartan puzzles?

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After a steady flow of information in June, all was quiet on Facebook project Spartan front in recent weeks. Initially, at least some thought the plan was to reveal the Spartan in July, but it is clear that came and went. It is certainly possible, we don't hear anything until f8 in late September at the present time. But one new bit of information has come to our attention that could be linked. Say hello to BoltJS.

BoltJS is a UI framework that is built on Facebook for this purpose "helps developers build fantastic mobile Web applications with HTML5 and Javascript, as you can read it here for yourself. It is entirely written in JavaScript and runs in a browser window, it means that you want to not handling backend. And guess where the focus of the project is now: mobile browsers WebKit — as the Spartan project.

Here is a description of the developer Shane O' Sullivan's own words from the GitHub project page:

BoltJS is a structure of UI design Facebook is compact, fast and powerful. It is entirely written in JavaScript and runs in a browser window, requiring no backend server. While BoltJS can be used in the progressive enhancement approach, it is intended primarily for interfaces that are built mainly, if not entirely, in a Web browser.

Although the objective of the project BoltJS to support as many modern browsers as reasonable, currently focused on supporting mobile browsers, WebKit, design the best possible platform for mobile sites and HTML5 apps.

About ' Sullivan is a software engineer at Facebook Client UI team. Other sponsors of the draft are will Bailey, Vlad Kolesnikov and Tom Occhino.

BoltJS is built on top of Spears and plays nicely with Facebook the current code, comments about ' Sullivan. It also contains modules that use CommonJS standard. For all other technical details, check the docs page GitHub.

But here are some other interesting things about the project. First Facebook doesn't seem to want to say a few words about this. I asked them about this a few hours ago after back and forth about something else. So far Nada in response to this. This is not surprising, given what I said about BoltJS — namely that it should still be secret.

While at GitHub are documentation, source code was never released to the public yet. Links do not work on this page for the source files zip and tar. But I'm told that BoltJS already being licensed secretly to third parties that are preparing applications to show off using the platform. At least one of these third parties is a major player in the consumer Web space. Again, this sounds a lot like the Spartan.

Also on GitHub-demo application built using BoltJS, entitled "Weather app". If it looks familiar, it's because you have an iPhone. It is essentially a weather app again using the JavaScript framework. Still think Facebook is not going to fight with Apple's mobile down the road? …

It's all for now. More as we get it.

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