Chances of Microsoft adding support for developing wp8 apps in JavaScript and html5?

[fishingfon]

Hi,
I am a windows 8 app developer, and I use JavaScript, css3, and html5 to develop apps for windows 8.
They don't run in the browser, they run as actual apps, just like if you wrote them in c# or c++.

I was just wondering, do u think Microsoft will add support to windows phone 8 for apps that are written in js and html5?.
As I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible, because u can write websites for phones with those languages, and it has the same principles.

Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong forum, I am new to the wp8 forum

Thanks
Corey


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[mcosmin222]

Correction: your apps do run in a browser, just not in an blatantly obvious one.

You can develop HTML 5 apps for WP8.

 

[fishingfon]

Correction: your apps do run in a browser, just not in an blatantly obvious one.

You can develop HTML 5 apps for WP8.

Hi, that's incorrect.
They run with the same JavaScript engine as IE10, but its not in a browser, it runs in the context of a app.
You upload the JavaScript apps for windows 8 to the MS store, so it doesn't run in browser.

So can u develop wp8 apps that you can upload to the MS store with HTML 5?.




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[Useless guy]

I really can't understand how people use JS for developing apps. It looks really ugly, at least MS's applications.

 

[fishingfon]

I really can't understand how people use JS for developing apps. It looks really ugly, at least MS's applications.

They don't look ugly, they look exactly the same as if they were developed in c#.
It just depends if the dev is **** or now, lol.

Corey



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[StevieBallz]

There is a HTML5 App template in the WP8 SDK, so in that regard you can do HTML5 Apps for WP8. But it comes down to having a "WebView" inside a regular App without access to the functionalities the OS provides (as you would be able to on Win8/RT). So in the end you are down to what you can do with the standard HTML5/JS functionality.

You might be able to do more with PhoneGap.

As for future updates. Currently there is also functionality (especially UI-wise) that you can't access from C++ Native Code either. There seems to still be a lot of Silverlight in the Runtime of WP8. Microsoft announced that they would try and move the Runtime libraries of WP and Windows closer together with Blue, so I do believe "Native HTML 5 development" could become possible then.

 

[kanttii]

It's coming. Later