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I know everyone has their reservations about Microsoft and their developer ecosystem, but WinJS really is a delight to use, at least in my limited experience. A

by tlack 13y ago

I know everyone has their reservations about Microsoft and their developer ecosystem, but WinJS really is a delight to use, at least in my limited experience. A WinJS app is really just a zip of a bunch of JS (using WinJS's nice APIs for fancy stuff), CSS, and HTML, so most web developers who are used to the modern tool chain should be pretty comfortable with it. And yes, you can supposedly use it alongside Backbone/Angular/whatever. Worth a closer look.

yulaow 13y ago
I was really surprised for how much they pushed it today, considering that is not strongly adopted in the windows dev ecosystem (maybe also because, since today, it did not work on windowsphone). I am personally happy of this decision, and also for the support announced for other oss.
nthitz 13y ago
To be honest I've always wanted a file format that is exactly as you described. A zipped up front end web app. No internet dependencies so it works 100%. User can open the open the format and it opens in their browser of choice. All the files contained within are "hosted" from a static "webserver" that just hosts the files within the .zip. I can't say much to WinJS yet, but I am interested in their choice of container.
- bananas 13y ago
  Sounds like a java war file (just add container).
  - lmm 13y ago
    More like Java Web Start. Which would've been great if it worked with a decent UI framework.
    - bananas 13y ago
      You mean JavaFX. That works with web start :) You can do ClickOnce and WPF as well if you want. I rather like these solutions. I've built several of both.