2011/6/2 Peter van der Zee <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jarek Foksa <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you know any more technical details on this? Which extra APIs will >> be provided by Windows 8 to JS scripts? > > No, but you're right. It's probably not going to be as easy as writing > js in the browser. Although that also kind of depends on how they'll > specify their API. I mean, currently, Windows programming is all about > the event loop. Nothing alien about that in js. I expect some lengthy > namespacing, but that's ok (imo) because you have to organize > everything somehow. > > I just wonder what kind of sandbox/limitations, if any, we'll be > getting. Or environment (es5 with "browser" and OS extensions?).
If you ever looked at the .NET API, it is already possible to write full applications in JavaScript accessing everything any other .NET application could access. I think they will just add a wrapper around that same API so you will design the layout with HTML and CSS instead of writing everything in JavaScript and using standard Windows resources and DLLs to do the same job. As you may know for example the AMD videocard drivers' Control Center is written in .NET which have access to the registry, drivers, hardware, and the same API can be accessed NOW with JScript.NET. This only looks to me as the next step in that process. -- Poetro -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
