HTML5 & Windows 8friends with benefits

Frédéric HarperTechnical Evangelist @ Microsoft Canada

@fharper | outofcomfortzone.net

WINDOWS 8

Windows reimaginedNew fast and fluid Start screen

Everything great about Windows 7 we made even better

Touch, mouse, keyboard

Great experience across all hardwareTablets to

laptops to all-in-ones

Highest power to the most efficient chipset

Touch, mouse, keyboard

Content Before Chrome

Content comes first. Immerse users in the things they love

Leave only the most relevant elements on screen to minimize distractions

If you know web technologies, you are ready to build amazing apps for

the Windows Store

Windows Core OS Services

JavaScript(Chakra)

CC++

C#VB

Windows 8 Store Apps

Communication

& Data

Application Model

Devices & Printing

WinRT APIsGraphics &

Media

XAML HTML / CSS

HTMLJavaScrip

tCSS

CC++

C#VB

Desktop Apps

Win32

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Communication

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Application Model

Devices & Printing

Graphics & Media

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Core

TOOLS

Visual Studio 2012 & Blend for Visual Studio 2012

demo

WEB STANDARDS

IE10CSS 2D Transforms

CSS 3D Transforms

CSS Animations

CSS Backgrounds & Borders

CSS Color

CSS Flexbox

CSS Fonts

CSS Grid

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 BlobBuilder

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 track

HTML5 video and audio

JavaScript Typed Array

ICC Color Profiles

IndexedDB

Page Visibility

Pointer (Mouse, Pen, and Touch) Events

RequestAnimationFrame

Navigation Timing

Selectors API Level 2

SVG Filter Effects

SVG, standalone and in HTML

Web Messaging

Web Sockets

Web Workers

XHTML/XML

XMLHttpRequest (Level 2)

XMLHttpRequest CORS

Popular CSS3 features in Windows 8

2D & 3D transforms

Transforms Animations

Transitions

MotionGrid

Flexbox

Layout

Gradients

Filter Effects

Text-shadow

GraphicsMulti-column, hyphenation

Pagination

Position float

Content flow

Windows hardware acceleration makes these beautiful and fast

Popular HTML5

features in

Windows 8

Web 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

Context in HTML/JS Windows apps

Feature Local context Web context

Windows Run-time Yes No

Windows Library for Javascript

Yes No

External script references

No Yes

Cross-domain XHR requests

Yes No

Automatic filtering for script injection on DOM

Yes No

There are ways to communicate across contexts, ways to give websites access to some web standards features and ways to skip automatic filtering within a function.

Porting from HTML5

demo

WINJS

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

Web technologies you’re already familiar with

Utilities and patterns for responsive, reliable apps

Use interactive design tools

Build your apps fast and with high quality

Matches the Windows 8 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

WinJS

Helpers for Namespaces, Constructor Definition

Promises

App Model

Navigation

Page & User controls

Data binding

Controls

Animations

Templates

Utilities

Default CSS Styles

WinJS controls SettingsFlyout

Flyout

Semantic Zoom

Flipview

SemanticZoomListview

Menu

Rating

Slide does not include all WinJS controls (App Bar, Tooltip, ViewBox, ToggleSwitch, HTMLControl, etc.)

DatePicker

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

Understand our web context & sandboxing model

Mix & match works fine

CONTRACTS

Contracts enable integrating the Windows 8 experience

into your app

Share SettingsSearch

App to App Picking

Play To

SEARCH

Search contract makes your app searchable from

anywhere in the system

Search Anatomy

1. Search box is scoped to the main app on screen

2. Query suggestions provided by the main app on screen• Autocompletes to terms for which the app has search results

3. List of installed Windows Store apps that have implemented the search contract

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4. Result recommendations• Must include a thumbnail and title• Indicates a strong or exact match result• Takes users directly to the details of the result

5. Results• Show the count or not found• Be pertinent• Allow search refinementwith filters for example

Search Anatomy

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Implementing Search

demo

SHARE

Share provides a lightweight, in context experience for

app to app sharing

Sharing From Source to TargetShare Target AppShare Broker

User selects “Share”, active app is sent

event

Activated for sharing

Registers with the DataTransfer

Manager

Source App

Filters list of Target Apps and Quicklinks

User selects Target App or Quicklink

Processes DataPackage contents

Reports Complete

Completes Async calls and returns

Receives event and fills DataPackage

DataPackage lives in source

application

Activate Target as kind shareTarget

Data PackagePlain text

Formatted text

URI

HTML

Images

Files

Custom data formats

Share source & target

demo

SETTINGS

Settings contract provides quick,

consistent, in-context access to settings in your app

Settings

demo

CONCLUSION

You can build amazing apps with the Windows 8 platform, and HTML5

dev.windows.com

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Windows 8

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Frédéric Harper

fredh@microsoft.com@fharper

http://webnotwar.cahttp://outofcomfortzone.net