[herdcall]

Right. No real access to contacts, camera, files/database, accelerometer, GPS, etc. We tried in vain with application cache, offline storage, etc. but not seeing contacts/camera was a show-stopper. Even location isn't the same as native GPS because users get a warning on opening the HTML that usually scares them away.

[xanadohnt]

The article is about using one (of the many) methods to develop native apps for Windows 8. This is not like PhoneGap - you have full access to the resources available on the device. Don't mistake the composition technologies (CSS, HTML, JavaScript) as == non-native app.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br21138...