HTML5 application on Windows Phone 7.5 emulator

Question

Hi,

I had installed Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (WPSDKv71_en1.iso) on windows 8 OS in my laptop and also installed 7.1.1 update (WPSDK-7.1.1-KB2669191-x86.exe). Now I am able to run a sample Windows Phone application. But I am able to develop application only on Silverlight and XNA.

I want to develop application with HTML 5 instead of Silverlight as the application can also run in other devices. Pls let me know is it possible to develop HTML 5 application with Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. Also pls point out me some url for reference.

Many Thanks,

Thirumalai M

Answer 1

Hi,

Below you can find some pointers to some references regarding html5 apps on WP 7.5.

In general it depends on which browser capabilities your app finally uses, and so it depends on if the browser on Windows Phone 7.5 would support those “attributes”.

IE9 Mobile Developer Overview
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/09/22/ie9-mobile-developer-overview.aspx

Web Development for Windows Phone - Supported Standards and Technologies
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff462082%28VS.92%29.aspx

Have also a look at the following HTML5 test page: http://html5test.com/index.html

Last but not least you could go to e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com  and search for html5 and “Windows Phone 7.5”  

Hope this helps
Klaus

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Klaus Bassler

Answer 2

Hi Klaus Bassler,

Thanks for your reply. I understand to render the HTML5 app, we required the latest browser. But I need to know in the development, I need to get a template from the Visual Studio with required references added.

When I installed Windows Phone SDK 8.0 on one VM (which has Windows server 2012), I could see creating HTML 5 application templates under Windows Phone section. But I am not seing the same in Windows Phone 7.1. As VM does not support Hyper-V, I am unable to run the Windows Phone 8.0 application where, I dont have x64 bit machine with me.

So I have only Windows Phone 7.1 SDK and wanted to develop HTML 5 Windows Phone application. I need a template  or some other way to start with.

Answer 3

Hi Thirumalai
Actually, as far as I know there are no related html5 “templates” provided with Phone SDKs or so.

Therefore you could start with looking for some Phone and html5 related samples at:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps or
http://msdn.microsoft.com

I think you should find some that way.

Here some potential useful hits (without giving any real recommendation!)
hitshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh975345.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh771462.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dorischen/archive/2011/10/28/html5-mobile-and-windows-phone-7.aspx
https://www.accelebrate.com/mobile_development_training/mobile_html5_training.htm
http://www.webstralia.com/mobile-development

Hope this helps

//Klaus

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Klaus Bassler

Answer 4

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for your useful reply. I will explore more.

Answer 5

I would not recommend you to use htlm5 due to bad performance (low fps and etc) this is the same issue for android. Check it out https://www.scirra.com/blog/85/the-great-html5-mobile-gaming-performance-comparison .