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If IE10 supports hardware acceleration, CSS timelines, and a strong JS engine there is no reason why this couldn't work. JS owes some of its process problems to

by tomlin 15y ago

If IE10 supports hardware acceleration, CSS timelines, and a strong JS engine there is no reason why this couldn't work. JS owes some of its process problems to lower priority in the typical OS. What if JS had higher priority and it's own dedicated thread of CPU? .NET developers shouldn't fear the future. They should be happy that, for once, their ecosystem may see a growth that actually works for them.

kenjackson 15y ago
It would cool if you could style the whole UI with CSS.
- luffy 15y ago
  But what would that CSS end up looking like? There will be a lot of proprietary extensions (at least their should be) and a lot of quixotic classes and element id's that you'd probably have to work around. I envision something like Office's awful "open" format - the same people are driving this bus. I've done the MS HTML/JS client route for a long time - I've set up a lot of gadgets, and InfoPath(!) has an HTML/XML/JS programming model. Truth be told this model is actually really painful to work with if all you have is HTML/JS. Keep in mind that the "web" isn't just HTML. It's Perl, Rails, Json, JS, Google, Wikipedia, RSS, etc. Now, if these tiles are something akin to mini-web browsers, where you can use the full power of the web & web technologies (is this what they are actually saying?), that is a different story.
  - kenjackson 15y ago
    The difference though is if the intent is for the markup to be styled, it will be written differently. For example, take a look at the WPF built-in controls. Those are written in very clean XAML. Easy to read, style, and modify. I'm sure they could have made it difficult, but their intent was that you'd modify the built-in controls. If they want to do this with the UI, they could do it. The theming you could do with this could be incredible. I doubt this is something they're going to do for V1 (if ever), but I can dream.

by tomlin 15y ago

kenjackson 15y ago

It would cool if you could style the whole UI with CSS.

luffy 15y ago
But what would that CSS end up looking like? There will be a lot of proprietary extensions (at least their should be) and a lot of quixotic classes and element id's that you'd probably have to work around. I envision something like Office's awful "open" format - the same people are driving this bus. I've done the MS HTML/JS client route for a long time - I've set up a lot of gadgets, and InfoPath(!) has an HTML/XML/JS programming model. Truth be told this model is actually really painful to work with if all you have is HTML/JS. Keep in mind that the "web" isn't just HTML. It's Perl, Rails, Json, JS, Google, Wikipedia, RSS, etc. Now, if these tiles are something akin to mini-web browsers, where you can use the full power of the web & web technologies (is this what they are actually saying?), that is a different story.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  The difference though is if the intent is for the markup to be styled, it will be written differently. For example, take a look at the WPF built-in controls. Those are written in very clean XAML. Easy to read, style, and modify. I'm sure they could have made it difficult, but their intent was that you'd modify the built-in controls. If they want to do this with the UI, they could do it. The theming you could do with this could be incredible. I doubt this is something they're going to do for V1 (if ever), but I can dream.