SeaTurtle

Introduction

SeaTurtle is a pure-JavaScript MVC framework that sits atop jQuery, with a design heavily inspired by Cocoa and Ruby.

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Features

• OOP framework with support for inheritance, overriding methods, properties/attributes, destructors (via Objective-C-like reference counting)
• MVC framework - models manage data, controllers manage models and views, and views manage DOM elements
• Triggered events for objects (not just DOM elements)
• Helper functions to create DOM elements without using innerHTML
• Minimal global namespace pollution - includes "ST" utility class, and all built-in classes start with ST. Does not alter any native objects.
• Piles of useful built in classes, including:
  • TableView - Table/Tree view
  • Array - wrapper over native Array with extra features
  • IndexedArray - Array that maintains indexing and linked list between contained objects
  • AutoField - Sophisticated autocompletion text field
  • Form - View that provides a form to edit arbitrary data
  • TabController - Tabbed management of View Controllers