Joe Wood

• Luke Hoban: ECMAScript 6

  Apr 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM

  Hi Luke - will there be any facility in Internet Explorer to enable 'experimental mode' to use these features?  I'm guessing we won't see any of these until an IE11 beta. 

• Web Developer Efficiency Tools in Visual Studio 11

  Mar 12, 2012 at 11:20 AM

  This looks great.  But the problem is that it doesn't quite give you what the Web Essentials extension did before it.  The CSS page inspector looks great, but changes aren't reflected automatically - you need to refresh.  This is fine for most sites, but for Singla Page Applications, when on a dialog where the page's state isn't reflected in the URL it's a pain.  You would need to fire up the dialog again.  Why not support dynamic CSS changes?

  Other than that - the new features look great.

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 01, 2011 at 6:57 PM

  After sitting through numerous reviews, SDRs, NDA customer feedback events I never ever heard any developer say "I really don't want to use C# and .NET I prefer to use HTML/JavaScript and CSS".

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 01, 2011 at 6:53 PM

  @Charles:it may be underneath, but the new tile UI is HTML/JS.  Will the tile UI be compatible with the WP7 tile API in Mango?

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 01, 2011 at 6:13 PM

  @Charles:Are you sure?  This is not the message from D9.  HTML/JS are said to be the only way to write first class Windows 8 apps.

  Forget your WP7 app investment. 

• HTML5 for Silverlight Developers

  Apr 13, 2011 at 8:32 PM

  There are equivalents to low-level Silverlight elements.  But we're still missing a real HTML5 framework like GWT or something.  RIght now it's like going back to Silverlight 1.  No .NET and just the primitives.

• Countdown to MIX11: Joe Belfiore Talks Phone

  Mar 27, 2011 at 8:14 AM

  I think we need more transparency here.

  Firstly, where are the delays and what are the activities?  If this is a carrier test delay, what are they testing?  Their native apps on the phone?  Why don't iPhone updates suffer the same delays (they are largely globally synchronized, looks like the carriers don't get a veto).  Why are phone devices different to 3G enabled netbooks for example?

  My suggestions....

  The answer is to emulate the iPhone model more than the Android model.  Locking down the platform is the first step, but locking down for the users and not the handset OEMs and carriers misses the point - we still see the same delays with testing.  

  The best thing for the users is for Microsoft to use less OEM partners - we really shouldn't be cheering each time a new hardware partner is announced.  The carriers and OEMs are not interested in updates, they want to sell more units.  Will devices more than 18 months old ever get any attention from them, they would be spending money on encouraging their users not to buy new equipment or contracts. 

  The real answer is to move as much testing in-house at Microsoft as possible.  Change the SLA with the carriers - move support to Microsoft.   Lock down the API surface area.

  Also, use the community.  Roll out the update as an optional to all developer enabled handsets and let the community beta test it.  With all this time to market should be something closer to Apple's rather than Google's.

   

• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dean Hachamovitch

  Dec 09, 2009 at 8:35 PM

  I thought the comment about not including the DLR struck me as 'Not Invented Here'.  The potential for integrating the standard web platform with the managed platform is huge.  The investment in the CLR, garbage collecting, call-site optimizations could all be leveraged.  Microsoft should be pushing for features that are in Silverlight to become part of HTML.

  Are there really any optimizations that are truly JavaScript specific, and couldn't be used in other scripting languages?

• IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine

  Nov 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM

  Would love to know about the DLR story here.  Are these optimizations specific to JavaScript, why not all work on the same runtime performance though the DLR.  It may mean going to IL first - but this would have other added benefits, like improved interop with Silverlight.

• Graphics improvements in WPF 4

  Oct 25, 2009 at 9:35 AM

  I second that.  The samples do not run on Beta 2 and there's no source to recompile then.

  Jaime - can you repost with the beta 2 bindings?

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