Introduction

image Note  The world’s population of web developers is enormous, and each one of these developers is now a Windows 8 developer—targeting the largest device market ever to exist.

Are you a web developer? I am. I started reverse engineering web pages in 1994 and have since been rather captivated by the platform. It has been wrought with constraints from the start, yet it draws in developers and consumers alike even today, roughly two decades later. My experience with the very elegant and powerful XAML, Microsoft’s own user interface (UI) technology, has occasionally reminded me of the limitations of HTML, but I just keep coming back to ...

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