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This is the intro of the full blog post TypeScript, from skeptic to convert

We are a small but focused consulting firm that has been developing two to four advanced business cloud and web applications per year for almost a decade, and we have grown to be very mindful about what technologies make it into our recommended tech stack — we are not the kind of consulting company that adopts new technology just because they are hot.

From our experience, it always comes back to these three core principles, Simple scales better, Patterns over frameworks, Runtime first.

At first glance, TypeScript seemed to be the archetype of what we usually avoid, and despite its noble mission statement to add [to JavaScript] without removing [or fixing], we had our original doubts and skepticism, which could be summarized as follows:

• A Microsoft bait and switch strategy?
• Yet another CoffeeScript?
• Angular stuff?
• Can static type be added the JavaScript way?
• Cost v.s. Value?

In its beginning, we could not rule out any of those concerns out for sure, so we decided to give it some time. After a couple of years and many releases, we took a third look this summer, and that was the charm. We turned from being hopeful skeptics to full converts.

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Beside of all this, the one thing that sets us apart from others is our passion for all of the details surrounding all aspects of an application experience, from server and cloud architecture to UI responsiveness and HTML5 optimization.

We are convinced that HTML is the technology of the future for a large majority of applications from a business as well as a technical point of view. And the thing we discovered during this three years is that with the right architectural approach, building advanced HTML5 applications for PCs, mobile devices, and tablets can be as efficient and scalable as creating desktop or native type of applications.

To accomplish this vision, we created two open source technologies, Snow, which is a Java lightweight server framework based on Google Guice, and brite, an lightweight and DOM Centric HTML5 MVC framework based on jQuery. Both of these technologies are completely free, fully open source (Apache V2 for Snow and MIT for Brite), and are designed to build high-end modern applications using the best of Java on the server, and the best of HTML5 on the client.

We are going to blog quite a bit to share everything we have learned over the last few years about building high end HTML5 applications. So, feel free to follow us on
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Feel free to visit us at BriteSnow.com or contact us at info@britesnow.com

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A new executive from Adobe is expected to say:

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Over the last 12 months, there has been a tremendous amount of buzz about HTML5, and like everything that gets buzz, some good and some bad are coming out of it.

On the good side, the industry is now unanimously agreeing that HTML is a technology of the future and not a legacy one, and there is an amazing competitiveness among its implementers (Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft). The bad side is that lots of people tend to misinterpret what HTML5 really is, and this confusion is a great source for its detractors to spread FUD around it.

To make sense out of this chaos, it helps to know that HTML5 can be split into three façades, and depending of which you pick, you will have a different appreciation of its readiness and potential.

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Undeniably, HTML5 has created quite a buzz for itself over the last 12 months or so, leading some of us to question whether or not HTML5 is worth all of this attention. Or as, someone on Quora asked, Why is HTML5 worth all of the hype?

If there were only one reason as to why HTML5 is definitely worth all of the interest it has attracted, it would be the following:

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