Windows® 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed

HTML5

When writing Windows Store apps, you can take advantage of many of the new features of HTML5 and related standards. Here is a list of some of the most important of these new features:

Form Validation Attributes—You can take advantage of the new validation attributes in the HTML5 standard to perform form validation. I discuss these new validation attributes and how you can use them in a Windows Store app in Chapter 5, “Creating Forms.”

data-*—The data dash star standard enables you to add custom attributes to existing HTML5 elements. The WinJS ...