This week, Microsoft announced that the famous open source JavaScript library jquery will provide full support for Windows 8 application development in version 2.0, a natural and additional tool for many Windows 8 application developers. The news is from Microsoft's Interoperability blog, posting that Microsoft's open technologies is currently working with Appendto to provide jquery 2.0 with support for Windows 8 applications, and jquery 2.0 has already released a beta release.
Jonathan Sampson, Appendto's support director, wrote: "jquery is about to provide standard support for applications in the Windows Store, and Windows provides all the WINRT APIs in the HTML5 development environment, The entire environment is relatively secure, but some of the code and related operations of jquery are not secure enough on the content. Appendto evaluates and completes the jquery core, bringing it to the Windows security model and, of course, providing better solutions for other development environments. ”
This may open the door for more developers to Windows 8, especially developers who develop web-based applications with JavaScript and HTML5.