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As a Windows 8 developer, the most frustrating part of WP8 is the lack of compatibility for native HTML5/WinJS apps. For me, this was the best thing about Wind
by madoublet 14y ago
As a Windows 8 developer, the most frustrating part of WP8 is the lack of compatibility for native HTML5/WinJS apps. For me, this was the best thing about Windows 8. It made building apps easy and fun. The most ridiculous thing about the whole thing is that the HTML5/WinJS apps are completely responsive, and you pretty much have to build a mobile version of your app to support "snap" mode. So, they could easily have a write once, run anywhere model if they just supported native HTML5 apps in WP8. Sorry, /rant.
- GowGuy47 14y agoI did not know this about WP8, and I'm glad you said something. It's stuff like this that will make devs steer clear of writing for them. If I can write a PhoneGap app for Android/iPhone (Which I am), but I have to make major changes to write for WP8 then I am not going to do so.
- sblom 14y agoThere's a Windows Phone 8 implementation of PhoneGap: https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-wp8 https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-wp8
- GowGuy47 14y agoI did not know this about WP8, and I'm glad you said something. It's stuff like this that will make devs steer clear of writing for them. If I can write a PhoneGap app for Android/iPhone (Which I am), but I have to make major changes to write for WP8 then I am not going to do so.