HTML5

Today's Mobile Monday takes us to a project type that I've not covered before, using PhoneGap (aka Cordova) to build Windows Phone 7.1(5) apps. The promise of PhoneGap is that you can write a single app and deploy it to many different phone platforms, from iOS to Android and Windows Phone 7.That's…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

This webcast presents a description of the process in integrating the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) into an existing Apache Cordova application. Additional pointers are provided to aid developers in their task.To learn more about the theme and download it, read the blog…

This video is an introduction to the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) that allows applying a Metro style user interface to HTML5-based Windows Phone application.HTML5 elements and controls are examined as they appear with the Metro style theme applied.Theme switching and…

With every new version of Windows, there is a huge effort to make sure that applications that worked on the previous version continue to work as expected. For this episode, I've invited Chris Jackson (also known as the "App Compat Guy") to join me and share some details on not only what…

Handling Touch Inputs Across Device BrowersHere is the link to the awesome blog post by the IETeam on handling touch and mouse inputs across browsers:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/10/19/handling-multi-touch-and-mouse-input-in-all-browsers.aspxGetting All the Page Flip CodeHere is a…

We're trying a new format for the show notes for this week, let us know what you think!:[0:24] WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release (WCF Data Services Team Blog), WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM[1:32] Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK, pt. 2 (Larry Lieberman)[2:40] Tackling performance killers: Common…

I've not seen many Metro Style Kinect project yet, so when I saw this I knew I had to include it in the Gallery. And the fact that it's an entry in the Imagine Cup competition is major icing on the cake...Kinect your Metro Style AppAs part of our Software Design project in Imagine Cup competition,…

We're going to start mixing in some new items in our Monday posts. Given the recent release of Windows 8 Customer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta we're going to start mixing in some new "M's", such as today's Metro Monday project...One of the promises of developing for Windows 8 is that…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on March 13, 2012.Abstract Building HTML5 web applications is nice, building HTML5 web applications that run on multiple devices is awesome. The key in this story are media queries which come with CSS3. In…