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		maxxxxx on June 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 HTML5+JS will still be Windows only.

hvs on June 2, 2011 | [–]

Just like Cocoa is Mac OS X only. It's for developing native apps. The point is that MS is using open specifications as the centerpiece of their new platform.

krakensden on June 2, 2011 | [–]

In which case it's even worse. HTML5+JS is great, but aggravating enough that I'd still spring for a native API if I had the choice.

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