Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by cwyers on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:46PM
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This seems... backwards. What integration could MS give to web apps that they aren't already? Microsoft replaced their help file format with HTML starting with Vista. HTML and JS are first-class languages for building UWP apps. If anything, it's Netscape's lawsuit against MS for bundling IE that kept them from doing more to integrate web pages into the OS, not the moving of browser development in-house.
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by erikpukinskis on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:07PM
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Start menu integration, USB device access, graphics and sound APIs, notifications...
Just look at the Windows APIs there are a wealth of things Microsoft doesn't want in browsers if they can avoid it.
Well... there are people on the browser team trying their best, but the resource constraints keep investment where it needs to be to protect Windows and Office licensing.
Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by cwyers on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:54PM
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> Start menu integration, USB device access, graphics and sound APIs, notifications...
You can get all that through UWP, though, can't you?
Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by WorldMaker on Thursday February 16, 2017 @11:44AM
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You can even get access to all of that from a webpage, if you know how to ask. [1]
[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/hosted...