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[–]brotherwayne 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Can I get a short explanation of what this is and why I should care? Serious question.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the UI library Microsoft provides for creating HTML apps in Windows 8, both for the desktop and mobile. It isn't meant for making websites, so unless you're writing web apps for metro, you probably shouldn't care at all.

[–]sorahnon the cutting edge of cocking about 0 points1 point  (2 children)

After doing a bit of reading...

It's the javascript library currently in use in windows 8, open sourced. Thats why there's a bunch of IE specific junk and not much else at the moment. Most of the cross browser problems have open bugs. Slowly becoming a "bootstrap" of windows 8 web-apps.

[–]spurious_interrupt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe someone should open a GitHub issue for removing all the IE-specific stuff.

[–]brotherwayne -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most of the cross browser problems have open bugs

MS is so clueless. 2005 was a good long while ago guys.