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> Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them. Yep. The client-side environment is far too unstable to bui
by mkmcdonald 14y ago
> Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them.
Yep.
The client-side environment is far too unstable to build a "native app". There's a reason why monumental frameworks like ExtJS barely work in IE 9.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoWindows 8 allows you to build native apps in HTML/JS. You would be very hard pressed to tell any difference at all.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoWindows 8 also provides a consistent set of APIs across all languages supported: JScript, C#, C++ and VB.NET. There's nothing you can do in C# that you can't do in JScript on Windows 8, with the possible exception of DirectX.
- wmf 14y agoAre we talking plain vanilla HTML/JS or HTML/JS+Metro extensions? Also, I guess those apps don't have to be cross-browser.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoThere are extensions.