Building Metro style apps

with HTML & JavascriptFrédéric HarperDeveloper Evangelist @ Microsoft Canada

@fharper | outofcomfortzone.net

You can build amazing sites and Metro style apps with the Windows 8 web platform

Windows 8

Windows Core OS Services

JavaScript(Chakra)

CC++

C#VB

Metro style Apps

Communication

& Data

Application Model

Devices & Printing

WinRT APIsGraphics &

Media

XAML HTML / CSS

HTMLJavaScri

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CC++

C#VB

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Win32

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Windows 8

Windows Core OS Services

JavaScript(Chakra)

CC++

C#VB

Metro style Apps

Communication

& Data

Application Model

Devices & Printing

WinRT APIsGraphics &

Media

XAML HTML / CSS

HTMLJavaScri

pt

CC++

C#VB

Desktop Apps

Win32

.NET / SL

Internet Explore

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Syst

em

Serv

ices

Vie

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el

Contr

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Communication

& Data

Application Model

Devices & Printing

Graphics & Media

Syst

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Serv

ices

Core

HTML 5

IE9 hardware-accelerated web platform

CSS 2D Transforms

CSS Backgrounds & Borders

CSS Color

CSS Fonts

CSS Media Queries

CSS Namespaces

CSS OM Views

CSS Selectors

CSS Values and Units

Data URI

DOM Element Traversal

DOM HTML

DOM Level 3 Core

DOM Level 3 Events

DOM Style

DOM Traversal and Range

DOMParser and XMLSerializer

ECMAScript 5

HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 Geolocation

HTML5 Selection

HTML5 semantic elements

HTML5 video and audio

ICC Color Profiles

Selectors API Level 2

SVG, standalone and in HTML

XHTML/XML

Windows 8 hardware-accelerated web platformAnimation Frames

CSS 2D Transforms

CSS 3D Transforms

CSS Animations

CSS Backgrounds & Borders

CSS Color

CSS Flexbox

CSS Fonts

CSS Grid Alignment

CSS Hyphenation

CSS Image Values (Gradients)

CSS Media Queries

CSS multi-column Layout

CSS Namespaces

CSS OM Views

CSS Positioned Floats (Exclusions)

CSS Selectors

CSS Transitions

CSS Values and Units

Data URI

DOM Element Traversal

DOM HTML

DOM Level 3 Core

DOM Level 3 Events

DOM Style

DOM Traversal and Range

DOMParser and XMLSerializer

ECMAScript 5

File Reader API

File Saving

FormData

HTML5 Application Cache

HTML5 async

HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 Drag and drop

HTML5 Forms and Validation

HTML5 Geolocation

HTML5 History API

HTML5 Parser

HTML5 Sandbox

HTML5 Selection

HTML5 semantic elements

HTML5 video and audio

ICC Color Profiles

IndexedDB

Page Visibility

Pointer (Mouse, Pen, and Touch) Events

Resource Timing

Selectors API Level 2

SVG Filter Effects

SVG, standalone and in HTML

Timing callbacks

Web Messaging

Web Sockets

Web Workers

XHTML/XML

XMLHttpRequest (Level 2)

CSS3

2D & 3D transforms

Transforms Animations

Transitions

MotionGrid

Flexbox

Layout

Gradients

Text-shadow

GraphicsMulti-column, hyphenation

Pagination

Position float

Content flow

Windows hardware acceleration makes these beautiful and fast

CSS3 demos

demo

HTML5Web Sockets

Web Workers

IndexedDB

Ecmascript 5

File API & Blobs

Geolocation

Audio tag

Video tag

Touch-first

Pointer events

Zoom regions

Snap Points

Forms

Validation

Input types

Spell checking

HTML5 demos

demo

Tools

Visual Studio 2011 Beta & Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta

demo

WinJS

Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)library for building Metro style apps using JavaScript

Web technologies you’re already familiar with

Modern patterns for responsive, reliable apps

Use interactive design tools

Build your apps fast and with high quality

Matches the Windows Metro design style

Controls for common user experiences

Designed for touch as well as traditional input

Scales across form factors

Make your apps look and feel great

WinJSHelpers for Namespaces, Constructor Definition

Promises

App Model

Navigation

Page & User controls

Data binding

Controls

Animations

Templates

Utilities

Default CSS Styles

The Contoso Cookbook

demo

Prefer your own library? Go ahead! Adhere to the Metro UI and Windows personality

Understand our webcontext & sandboxing model

Mix & match works fine

If you know web technologies, you are ready to build amazing Metro style apps.

Thank You

Appendix

More details & cool demos IE 9 Dev guide http://www.ietestdrive.com/Links/DevGuide9.html

IE 10 Dev guide http://www.ietestdrive.com/Links/DevGuide10.html

Touch in IE 10 and Metro style apps http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/09/20/touch-input-for-ie10-and-metro-style-apps.aspx

More details & cool demos

http://www.ietestdrive.com/Links/DevGuide10.html

http://www.ietestdrive.com/Links/DevGuide9.html

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