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This article seems to be making the assumption that the Windows 8 api will be vanilla HTML5/JS. My impression from the presentation was that they might be using
by cageface 15y ago
This article seems to be making the assumption that the Windows 8 api will be vanilla HTML5/JS. My impression from the presentation was that they might be using HTML as the layout format and JS as the language but that there would be a lot of non-standard widgets and APIs exposed to both layers.
If so, it's too early to dismiss the technology as "inadequate".
- rbanffy 15y agoI was quite sure that would be the case, as Microoft would never allow such an easy way to port Windows apps to other environments. Whatever glue is tied in HTLM/JS environment, it'll run deep into the Windows APIs in such a way no HTML5/JS app will be easily ported to, say, Google's ChromeOS.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoChrome has plenty of its own APIs too.
- rbanffy 15y agoSure, but to a lesser degree than for Microsoft, it's not in Google's best interest to have ChromeOS apps ported to other platforms.