Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by forgotAgain on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:14PM
(#7518635)
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?
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Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by renekooi on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:44PM
(#7518874)
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
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by elwell on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:46PM
(#7518886)
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/bb77...
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by velikos on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:39PM
(#7519249)
The fact that it's branded with Windows makes me hesitant to use it for non-Microsoft environments.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by adlpz on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:16AM
(#7521733)
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.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by sharpneli on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:29AM
(#7521929)
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.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by VikingCoder on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:51PM
(#7519891)
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.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
by delinka on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:24PM
(#7518719)
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.