In a new post on the Internet Explorer developer blog, Microsoft goes over some of the changes it has made to Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 in terms of improving JavaScript performance.

Apps that use the “new Windows” approach to programming will be built in HTML and JavaScript, said Windows president Steven Sinofsky at D9’s Windows 8 announcement today. Windows 8 will run ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

A very welcome feature embedded in the new JavaScript Windows Metro style app templates in the Visual Studio 11 beta is that they accommodate built-in support for databinding, using sample data in ...

Windows 8 will run Windows 7-based apps using that same Windows 7-based UI, while also being capable of running Windows 8-based apps, which can be built based on HTML 5 and JavaScript.

Most of this initial chapter of Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript covers general HTML5 functionality, but there are a few references to items specific to Windows 8.

Windows 8 has some great animations baked in; even better, developers can take advantage of the animations themselves using the Animations Library. The Animation Library is available for XAML or HTML5 ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...