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Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by _wmd on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:41PM (#7518856)
It wouldn't be fair to mention this without mentioning of the 3 fixes landed since that repo was created, 2 are for cross-browser compatibility bugs..

That aside, I love how this negativity only seems to stick to Microsoft when every other major player has their own private set of bits that only work well on their platform (WebOS, Firefox OS "proposed standard" mobility APIs, Chrome endless variety of "we're doing it so it's going to be a standard" APIs, etc). It's no excuse, but it's hardly unique to MS

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by VikingCoder on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:54PM (#7519902)
There's a giant difference between "only work well on their platform" and "purposefully designed to only work on their platform."

There is NO EXCUSE for a TOGGLE to not work, cross-browser, in the year 2014.

http://try.buildwinjs.com/default.aspx#toggle

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by Flenser on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:25AM (#7521755)
The github issue for that is listed right under it. It looks like they may be pulling them in automatically via tags on the issues. If so, that's one of the best documentation -> issue systems I've seen.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by randunel on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:37AM (#7521606)
Does NOT work in Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 1020).

Doesn't work in Chrome on Ubuntu 14. Doesn't work in Firefox on Ubuntu 14.

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by orf on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:27AM (#7521274)
Works for me on Android Chrome. What browsers don't display this correctly?
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by gibbitz on Sunday April 13, 2014 @09:36PM (#7584051)
Doesn't in android stock browser on ICS. If I had a more powerful phone, I'd use chrome, but on my G2, it's kinda slow...
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by grantpalin on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:56PM (#7524669)
Doesn't work on Chrome 33 on Win 7.

Does work on BlackBerry Z10 - no tap to toggle, but press and drag to toggle.

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by Huppie on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:30AM (#7521415)
I'm on Chrome 33 (latest stable) @ Windows 8.1 and it doesn't work.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by orf on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:45AM (#7521442)
You're right, it doesn't work on my Desktop either. It's very weird that it works fine on Chrome for Android.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by bluefinity on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:44AM (#7521632)
It works for me if I enable touch emulation (Google Chrome on Linux). I don't see the styling that you apparently get in IE though.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by jedrek on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:13PM (#7526151)
Safari 7.0.2 Firefox 28 Chrome 33.0.1750.152

all on os x 10.9.2

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by frozenport on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:31AM (#7521283)
Doesn't work in FF 28.0 on x64 linux.
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by jimmcslim on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:44PM (#7519864)
THIS.

I think Scott Hanselman put it best with his recent 'Microsoft killed my Pappy' post...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by randunel on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:33AM (#7521590)
Really? Since when is mentioning hardware specs considered "open sourcing"?

Quote: We've open sourced Azure hardware specs, opening SDKs, and we're making systems more pluggable than ever.

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by nailer on Friday April 04, 2014 @07:20AM (#7530533)
Datacenter hardware designs are valuable. They solve physical limitations of heat dissipation, airflow, as well as compute power density problems and electrical stuff.

Companies building their own DCs spend a lot of money on doing this, so companies like Microsoft (I think Facebook do it too) showing off their designs is really useful.

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by al2o3cr on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:46PM (#7519873)
Just IMO, but perhaps it doesn't "stick" because none of the other folks spent years trying to use their effective OS monopoly to extinguish everything that wasn't their proprietary browser.

Also, ActiveX. ;)

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by _wmd on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:51PM (#7519888)
If you substitute "ActiveX" for "Native Client", this almost describes one of the new kids
Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by pyre on Thursday April 03, 2014 @12:26AM (#7520950)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't NaCl meant to be cross-platform? ActiveX was basically "hook directly into Windows (and only Windows) from the browser." It gave many free-license to create "Windows-only" webpages, in addition to producing many security holes during its run. This is where much of the resentment comes from.

How many security bugs does NaCl have compared to ActiveX? How do Microsoft's attempts to sandbox ActiveX compare to the efforts made to sandbox NaCl? IIRC, you could format the C: drive in ActiveX with a couple of lines of code (by design). NaCl (so far as I know) isn't supposed to allow that.

As far as I'm concerned, NaCl and ActiveX aren't even in the same ballpark.

Re:WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript by joenathan on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:08AM (#7521065)
For example the new Google Maps runs horribly slow in Firefox, I have to open Chrome sometimes just to get a map to render.