Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Dec 14 04:57:23 CST 2012
Hi Hans -- <<< On WinRT, Microsoft restricts access to APIs to the extent that its impossible. >>> Please provide links on information proving that statement. At least for WinRT one can develop apps using HTML5 and JavaScript running within IE instance probably - do you mean WinRT will block external third-parties API/Web services calls even in this case? <<< Regarding Googles utilities, if the goal is to avoid IE, due to security issues, this isn't much help. >>> Do you mean "Google Search" app for WinRT/Win8 uses MS Browser control to render web pages? If Yes, do you have links on information proving that supposition? BTW, I have just installed "Google" app on my WInPhone 7.5 - it's like "Google Search" WinRT app but with more limited interface. Anyway one can type 'Gmail', 'Google Maps', 'Google Translate' ... in the search box and then browse to the Google apps - all within "Google" WinPhone 7.5 application... When one is browsing this web site: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/overview/ they see that MS is ready to host via Windows Azure all the mainstream Web technologies - how's that? One can say they are in trouble and so looking for every opportunity to keep their "shrinking developers and users base" but the other one can say they have learned from their past mistakes and they now provide to their developers and users a very wide range of development tools and platforms... I'm not defending MS - just wanted to invite you and others here to keep positive attitude... even for Microsoft :) Thank you. -- Shamil Четверг, 13 декабря 2012, 16:26 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: >It will surely come. But another issue, if I'm not mistaken, is that they will only work on Intel based Win8. On WinRT, Microsoft restricts access to APIs to the extent that its impossible. > >Regarding Googles utilities, if the goal is to avoid IE, due to security issues, this isn't much help. > >Best regards, >Hans-Christian Andersen > > >On 13 Dec 2012, at 15:17, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote: > >> <<< >> so if you want to avoid IE in Metro, you are out of luck >> Hans -- >> >> But Google is free to develop and release a full featured Google Chrome Win8 Metro style app - and they will probably do that soon. >> And as I have noted Google has already released a "Google Search" app, which has most of the features and most of the Google apps an average Google Chrome user needs... >> >> Thank you. >> >> -- Shamil >>