Using AngularJS/BackboneJS in Windows 8 JavaScript app

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I dont get this. Microsoft encourage developers to write what they call Windows 8 JavaScript apps but then treats normal JavaScript actions (like creating or manipulating HTML5 elements) as toxic.

I suppose this is again part of the legacy of that dreadful decision back in the 90's to embed the MS web browser into the operating system. They cant just "sand-box" the execution like any other app.

I suspect I will avoid this even if tempted into any other sort of W8 development.

That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.

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