Windows 8 and JavaScript 101

Windows and JavaScript 101

useful or useless

The hype has been too much  around the windows store apps (or  metro apps as they were called  before) but the hype may not be as  it seems.

Here is a short introduction of windows 8 and JavaScript










Windows and JavaScript as it seems, do not match each other well. JavaScript has been a language for the development of the internet and with html5 the value of JavaScript has increased leaps and bounds, but the WinRT framework seems to do the job well.

The problem for the developers is that MS has confined the use of JavaScript only for programming windows store apps so if you are planning a  windows desktop application like a word processor, your plans would have to wait.

This said the development of store apps is too easy for the trained web developer and only after some introduction can we write a full fledged windows store app

This is the first time MS has introduced a non strongly typed language in the programming and has deviated from the OOP languages such as C# , visual C++, etc

The good part in JavaScript programming is that we don't have to worry about cross browser compatibility as windows will be rendering it, this also leads to another conclusion that the apps will not be cross platform and will only run on windows.

In Visual Studio 2012 MS has tried to make all the time consuming processes asynchronous so as not to freeze the UI while execution so you will encounter things like xhr and many other while execution and planning and designingof the app.

An important note is that MS has laid out strict guidelines on borders margins and content display and all the apps which are under the windows store brand have to use this guideline for the development maybe they want us to use the standard look for all apps.

Lets see if this experiment succeeds or fails comment on the possiblity.