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Why call it Win JS? Is it meant to be Windows only? If not then why give a multi-platform open source library a branded name?

delinka 13y ago
Because it's full of WIN! (as opposed to fail?) But really, I suspect the name is indeed intended to reflect Microsoft's flagship brand: Windows. They're proud of the brand and I'm sure there's no shortage of misunderstandings within Microsoft about how the public (mainly developers I believe) view the brand.
renekooi 13y ago
They called it WinJS since the start—it seems this is the same library that's used to build Windows 8 metro apps in JS. They just officially open sourced it now (although you could always access the source, as it was just another dependency for your Visual Studio project) but it's been in use by people from Microsoft and otherwise for quite some time. e; library to build windows apps = WinJS
elwell 13y ago
Yeah, reminds me of those JScript windows shell things from ten years ago or so [0]. [0] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776890(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb77...
velikos 13y ago
The fact that it's branded with Windows makes me hesitant to use it for non-Microsoft environments.
- adlpz 13y ago
  https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/License.txt https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/License.txt It's Apache 2.0. If it's good right now, there is no reason whatsoever to not use it.
  - sharpneli 13y ago
    Unfortunately it isn't good right now. It's pretty much IE only in practice. It might become good eventually but it's not there yet.
VikingCoder 13y ago
Because its origin is as stupid as the origin of MtGox... ...and hopefully it will die the same kind of burning death. Use HTML5. End of discussion. If Microsoft want to work hard to get their ideas into HTML5, then go for it. PLEASE. HTML5 could get better with their help. Instead, we get this flaming pile.

delinka 13y ago

Because it's full of WIN! (as opposed to fail?) But really, I suspect the name is indeed intended to reflect Microsoft's flagship brand: Windows. They're proud of the brand and I'm sure there's no shortage of misunderstandings within Microsoft about how the public (mainly developers I believe) view the brand.

renekooi 13y ago

They called it WinJS since the start—it seems this is the same library that's used to build Windows 8 metro apps in JS. They just officially open sourced it now (although you could always access the source, as it was just another dependency for your Visual Studio project) but it's been in use by people from Microsoft and otherwise for quite some time. e; library to build windows apps = WinJS

elwell 13y ago

Yeah, reminds me of those JScript windows shell things from ten years ago or so [0]. [0] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776890(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb77...

velikos 13y ago

The fact that it's branded with Windows makes me hesitant to use it for non-Microsoft environments.

adlpz 13y ago
https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/License.txt https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/License.txt It's Apache 2.0. If it's good right now, there is no reason whatsoever to not use it.
- sharpneli 13y ago
  Unfortunately it isn't good right now. It's pretty much IE only in practice. It might become good eventually but it's not there yet.

VikingCoder 13y ago

Because its origin is as stupid as the origin of MtGox... ...and hopefully it will die the same kind of burning death. Use HTML5. End of discussion. If Microsoft want to work hard to get their ideas into HTML5, then go for it. PLEASE. HTML5 could get better with their help. Instead, we get this flaming pile.