[etoys-dev] Windows 8 effect on Etoys

[Harness, Kathleen]

Hi,
My guess is that you already know this but, I saw an article that says Windows 8 doesn't support plug-ins. What will this mean for Etoys?
Kathleen

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins

"Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins<http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins>

Posted by Jonathan Allen<http://www.infoq.com/author/Jonathan-Allen> on Sep 15, 2011

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Though it as hard, we have been avoiding reporting on rumors about the death of Silverlight for quite some time. As in all things, rumors then to be exaggerated or out-right false. A good example of this is the idea that Web Forms has entered maintenance mode and would never be updated to HTML5. Unfortunately the end of Silverlight is no rumor, if Microsoft doesn’t change course it, as well as Flash and other plugin technologies, will be effectively unusable when Windows 8 is released.

On September 14th just before 6 pm Steven Sinofsky and Dean Hachamovitch announced that the Metro-style browser in Windows 8 does not support plugins<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx>. The Metro-style browser is the full screen, chromeless implementation of Internet Explorer that most people are expected to use with Windows 8. While the Metro user interface has extensive touch functionality, it is designed to be the primary UI for all devices with a screen of 1024x768 or larger even when using a mouse and keyboard. The “desktop” mode is still available, but it is being positioned as something that is only to be used by legacy programs and a few complex applications such as Photoshop and Visual Studio.

According to Steven Sinofsky,

This post is about a big change in Metro style IE, which is the plug-in free experience. In Windows 8, IE 10 is available as a Metro style app and as a desktop app. The desktop app continues to fully support all plug-ins and extensions."

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