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I can see the need to have plug in free on metro for WOA due to security and battery life etc, after all it was partially battery life that kept flash becoming mainstream in the mobile market wasn’t it?
I don’t know how hard it would be to code but you would have thought they could have a system in place that detects if its traditional windows or WOA and give it a plug in enabled metro version for x86 users. It will be a lot of annoyance on the consumer side with the lay user if you have to have the cut down version on all versions.
unrelated note: anyone else finding that if you open the hot spot with the tiles of recently opened apps then you have to move the mouse on the tile from the left edge or the tile will disappear? wondering if is partially my setup (dual screens) and no touch 😛
iPple did the same with their devices and everyone complained, but still bought them. I think by now everyone understands that pluggins dont work on mobile devices. And moving forward, desktops as well. I wouldnt be surprised if Safari soon stops support for Plug-ins on all their versions soon too. Plug-ins have met their doom. Might as well get used to it.
IE is not my default browser on Windows 8 for this very reason. One of the daily tasks I use a browser for is to upload my bike ride data from my Garmin which requires the Garmin Communicator Plugin. When I first installed Windows 8, the Modern version of IE was horrid, even with You Tube videos it was a pain with most videos unplayable or not supported in IE. It is the wrong time to disable all plugins and Flash capability claiming HTML5 is the way to go when there are still so many sites using this technology. While that may be way for the future, in the present there are still too many sites requiring Flash or plugins to be usable.
We have been hearing from the HTML5 only crowd for over a year now and yet there are still many sites that are not even HTML4 compatible. How can anyone claim then that HTML5 support is all that browsers should be supporting. These kind of changes do not happen overnight so developers need to include support for older technologies when said technology is still in widespread use.
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I can see the need to have plug in free on metro for WOA due to security and battery life etc, after all it was partially battery life that kept flash becoming mainstream in the mobile market wasn’t it?
I don’t know how hard it would be to code but you would have thought they could have a system in place that detects if its traditional windows or WOA and give it a plug in enabled metro version for x86 users. It will be a lot of annoyance on the consumer side with the lay user if you have to have the cut down version on all versions.
unrelated note: anyone else finding that if you open the hot spot with the tiles of recently opened apps then you have to move the mouse on the tile from the left edge or the tile will disappear? wondering if is partially my setup (dual screens) and no touch 😛
iPple did the same with their devices and everyone complained, but still bought them. I think by now everyone understands that pluggins dont work on mobile devices. And moving forward, desktops as well. I wouldnt be surprised if Safari soon stops support for Plug-ins on all their versions soon too. Plug-ins have met their doom. Might as well get used to it.
try using skydrive and word wep app or excel web app works perfect.
IE is not my default browser on Windows 8 for this very reason. One of the daily tasks I use a browser for is to upload my bike ride data from my Garmin which requires the Garmin Communicator Plugin. When I first installed Windows 8, the Modern version of IE was horrid, even with You Tube videos it was a pain with most videos unplayable or not supported in IE. It is the wrong time to disable all plugins and Flash capability claiming HTML5 is the way to go when there are still so many sites using this technology. While that may be way for the future, in the present there are still too many sites requiring Flash or plugins to be usable.
We have been hearing from the HTML5 only crowd for over a year now and yet there are still many sites that are not even HTML4 compatible. How can anyone claim then that HTML5 support is all that browsers should be supporting. These kind of changes do not happen overnight so developers need to include support for older technologies when said technology is still in widespread use.