Yes, I do mean that. And if you watch the original Win8 Metro videos, you will hear the phrase "HTML5 and JavaScript."

>You mean using JavaScript to write HTML5? I sure don't want to develop anything with a UI using nothing but JS. I must be misunderstanding you.
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>I know HTML5 is not all the way through the standards process yet. But it is already being used in 30-something of the busiest web sites.
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>>In your other thread, you noted the difference between a standard (sort of) and a development ide. There's more to it than that. Think of everything that goes into making a UI do what you want. And what will you be doing it with? JavaScript. JavaScript, according to the guy who wrote it (Brendan Eich), is a mess. And according to perhaps the most-recognized guru on JavaScript (Douglas Crockford), it took him 10 years to figure it out. Some development environment.
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>>>>>>However, the future is HTML 5.
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>>>>Hmm it seems to me that just a few years ago, someone said that the future was Silverlight
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>>>>It might be more precise to say "Microsoft has said that the future is HTML 5."
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>>>That one I believe. All signs are that HTML 5 is going to be huge. Keep in mind that it is an industry standard (W3C), not a Microsoft standard or product.
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>>>>It basically dead, but XAML lives on.
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>>>>However, the future is HTML 5.