The Web has arrived. Microsoft has made a bold move with Windows 8
that makes Web technology (HTML/CSS/JS) a first class citizen for
building professional and commercial grade applications. Up until now,
even with the advent of HTML 5 and incredibly fast JavaScript engines,
Web applications have always seemed to have limitations compared
to native development stacks for creating fully integrated and cutting
edge user experiences. These days are over with the arrival of Windows 8
as Microsoft blends the Chakra JS engine and the hardware accelerated
rendering / DOM environment of
IE 10 with the new WinRT OS-level abstractions.
The
WinJS libraries and bindings to
WinRT provide
a solid foundation for building applications but I feel that a
significant gap remains. MS rightly, and I presume intentionally, left
most of this gap open for the development community to fill. I created
the
Motown JavaScript library for Metro-style applications (HTML/CSS/JS) to fill the gap.
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