Why web developers should care about Windows 8

[ggreig]

There’s been quite a lot of attention paid to the new user interface in Windows 8, especially the Start Screen that’s replacing the Start menu, but perhaps if you’re a web developer you’ve been thinking none of this has much relevance for you.

Whether that’s actually right depends a bit on what sort of devices you’ve been targeting up until now.

Comments

[ffutures]

Oh good grief...

Thanks - that looks repulsive, but I suppose I might as well tool up for it - I think I'm mostly OK apart from one frame on the front page of my sites. I'll just have to do an alternative front page for mobiles and windows 8 which links to that bit as a separate page.

[ggreig]

Glad if it's helped. I thought it was something worth highlighting since I'm not really seeing it discussed much anywhere.

[ffutures]

Any chance you could take a look

http://www.forgottenfutures.co.uk/

I've just linked to the blog rather than having it framed in the mobile version, no other changes.

[ggreig]

It still looks squished because it's being rendered at 1024px then scaled down to 320px. I'll mail a possible fix to you - tried including it here, but it was going to be a major pain to fix the HTML necessary to make it display properly in the comment.

[very_true_thing]

Sounds okay.

320 pixels is the same as the iPhone so my existing adapative layouts should work okay for the snapped view.

And the minimum width of the fill view is 1366-320-width of splitter bar? So 1000 and a bit? So fill view will get my desktop layout (but not my widescreen layout on those sites that have them).

Are Windows Store apps only for touch screen devices? Or might there be scrollbars added as well? 320 pixels with a scrollbar would be a pain.

[ggreig]

I think it's 1024 pixels (minimum - more on a wider screen), once you take stuff like the splitter bar into account - they're targeting existing resolutions to try to avoid breaking stuff too much.

Windows Store apps aren't just for touch devices, although they're certainly more likely to be at home there. It'll be interesting to see how much people hate them; I think there'll be quite a strong conservative reaction, but having said that I've also met people who are enthusiastic about the new style. (Personally, I'm still getting used to it and on the fence. I don't think the current apps are good enough, but we'll see what developers make of it.)

Specifically on the scrollbars, I just tried a long page in snapped view, and there is a scrollbar, but it isn't visible unless I try to interact with page, in which case it fades up over the top of the content. It's transparent, and fades away again after a few seconds if I do nothing.

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[magentodesigns]

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[touch4laptop]

well, but the windows 10 is the best of all time especially on touch screens