New HTML5 site demos Windows Phone 7.5 in iOS, Android
updated 04:55 pm EST, Tue November 29, 2011
Microsoft reaches out to competing platforms
Microsoft has published a new HTML5 website meant to demonstrate Windows Phone 7.5 on iOS and Android devices. The page is located at aka.ms/wpdemo, and simulates many of the features of Windows Phone, mainly ignoring things that won't easily work in a web browser, such as voice recognition. A blue dot guides visitors around in a restricted tour.
The concept is similar to a Facebook page Microsoft has had in place for some time. With a new mobile site, though, the company is reaching out directly to users of competing operating systems, from which it needs to take share to grow Windows Phone as a platform. Apple, Google, and RIM generally have commanding leads.
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And still using fugly doctypes
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
Why not simply:
!doctype html
...which is the preferred HTML5 doctype?