On: HTML5-based Windows 8 enrages .Net devs, alienates...

[rbanffy]

That's exactly why W8 will certainly have lots of proprietary objects you'll need to call in order to do anything useful.

[Revisor → rbanffy]

For incompatibilities there would/will quickly rise frameworks that abstract you from them.

[rbanffy → Revisor]

Fair enough. They'll have to devise a better strategy to prevent that

[timinman → rbanffy]

That's fair enough considering Internet Explorer, but there are some counterpoints to consider: (1) If you watch the MS promotional video, attracting a wide range of developers is a stated goal of using HTML5; it would be counterproductive to that goal to add lots of proprietary code. (2) It would be easier to stick with the status quo than to recreate HTML5.

[rbanffy → timinman]

Their goal is to protect Windows from the competition. Providing proprietary hooks that cannot be easily duplicated elsewhere is their most likely strategy.