Over the years I’ve heard developers say, “you can always tell when it’s a web app,” insinuating that web apps are lacking when compared with native apps. These same folks will claim that web app performance is poor and the design is inferior. Although that might have been true years ago, toda...
In April 2015, our team of engineers and tech evangelists at Microsoft released vorlon.js – an open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. This article is the first in a series that will take a detailed look at one specific feature, starting with one of the ...
This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. This article discusses: Basic game development philosophy Using Web technologies for game development Adding game controls and AI Technologies discussed: Visual Studio 2013 Pro, Visual Stu...
In April 2015, our team of engineers and tech evangelists at Microsoft launched Vorlon.js, an open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. When we launched the project during the Microsoft Build Developer Conference keynote, we had only three plugins: the DOM Explo...
This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. I love high-performance JavaScript and I love sharing what I believe is its true potential. In this tutorial, I want to focus on Famo.us – it can allow you to maintain a silky smooth 60 ...
This article is part of a web dev series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. With version 0.3.0 of manifoldJS you can now choose to build your Android apps with Crosswalk instead of the traditional Android webview. It’s quite simple to implement as well. If you’re not ...
ECMAScript6 or ES6 is the evolution of JavaScript and it is the future. It is the technology innovation for the web we’ve all been waiting for. It is full of great functionality we always craved and it finally enables us to build huge applications for the web in a scalable and easy to maintain manner. It empowers tho...
This article is part of a web dev series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers, are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had...
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