From InfoWorld: Microsoft is making more accommodations for developers in both the JavaScript and Visual Studio realms, including promoting the development of "universal experiences."
With a preview of WinJS 4.0 (Windows Library for JavaScript 4.0), Microsoft wants to enable universal experiences, which can run on a range of form factors, including phones, tablets, PCs, or even TVs. Microsoft also has referred to this strategy as universal applications, part of the company's Windows 10 battle plan.
"WinJS controls make it easy to create responsive apps that not only work across all screen sizes, but with all input methods as well," the Windows Apps Team said in a blog post late last week. "The flexibility and features of the control enable your app to easily adapt its configuration to the current size of the screen, supporting phones, tablets, PCs, and everything in between." WinJS SplitView, also featured in version 4.0, enables an application behavior and style in which an app has a navigation pane on the left and content on the right, and ListView control capability, for displaying a list of items, features native performance and backs multiple app scenarios.
Version 4.0 also focuses on interoperability. "We believe you should use WinJS and your favorite JS frameworks together, whatever they may be," the blog post says. "The AngularJS-WinJS wrapper we now provide allows you to use WinJS seamlessly in your Angular projects."
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