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rbanffy on June 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about ...

I was quite sure that would be the case, as Microoft would never allow such an easy way to port Windows apps to other environments. Whatever glue is tied in HTLM/JS environment, it'll run deep into the Windows APIs in such a way no HTML5/JS app will be easily ported to, say, Google's ChromeOS.

MatthewPhillips on June 13, 2011 [–]

Chrome has plenty of its own APIs too.

rbanffy on June 13, 2011 | [–]

Sure, but to a lesser degree than for Microsoft, it's not in Google's best interest to have ChromeOS apps ported to other platforms.

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