jholly

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   by jholly 12y ago

   Had no idea the Skype and Music app UI's were built with WinJS. Playing around with the demo's really does pass the eye test. This is really good stuff.
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   by jholly 12y ago

   Microsoft isn't a fair comparison. They have other, multi-billion dollar cash cows to rely on. I don't think they're unfounded. Nearly every developer I know uses chrome, and chrome dev tools. This wasn't always the case
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   by jholly 12y ago

   Locked out of iOS. Under heavly competition on Android. Put the metro port on the back burner. Increasingly fighting to stay on feature parity with Chrome on the desktop. FirefoxOS still to make an impact. I love Firefox. I'm just worr
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   by jholly 12y ago

   Something about Angular rubs me the wrong way. I think it has to do with dirty checking. Either that or the scope magic that happens. React, comparatively, is quite straight forward. I hope it stays that way, a minimal API and no magic. The
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   by jholly 12y ago

   Facebook is a roll! This, react, warp! Bravo guys!
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   by jholly 12y ago

   React is absolutely incredible! They only thing i'd ask for is better support for mobile applications. Namely, touch gestures (tap, swipe, pinch, etc). Since react uses synthetic events, perhaps pointer-events can be baked right in so