112 replies to this topic 8 votes

[soumyasch]

Reminds a lot of their Pivot browser.

[xiphi]

Doesn't really look that bad. Even if this is just a joke, I bet someone will take this and run with it by actually making a metro looking browser.

[RoomKid]

It really does look sexy but its no where near true.

[bogas04]

LOL , seems like a longhorn version

At least firefox can have similar theme

[rfirth]

xiphi, on 02 April 2010 - 05:32, said:

Doesn't really look that bad. Even if this is just a joke, I bet someone will take this and run with it by actually making a metro looking browser.

That's actually exactly what I'm going to do

[Mazhar]

It looks cool!

[GP007]

I dunno how metro UI would actually work for a browser on the desktop. It's really ment for specific devices and experiences. That said, i'm pretty interested in what the real IE9 UI might be.

[Inklin]

I quite like that.. I would probably use it on windows if they made the UI look that nice and I'm not a fan of IE!

They should have transition effects too... you go to another web page and it slides in from the side of the browser window over the top of the previous web page.

[Jebadiah]

It would have been great if the UI actually looked like that with tabs on top. Instead we're going to get that ****ty IE7+ UI again.

[Julius Caro]

While it looks hideous/fake/impossible, I'm not judging. Last couple of times I did, I hated both office 2007 and windows 7 screenshots. Couldn't have been more wrong.

[itzwolf]

Don't like it at all, and I'm pretty sure it is fake. I don't see MS ever going that route on Internet Explorer.

[rawr_boy81]

You know, that reminds me of the april fools joke last year that stated Microsoft had dropped trident and decided to go with Webkit. The interesting part - the number of fan boys who wished it were true; that was until they continued reading the article lol

[GP007]

Jebadiah, on 02 April 2010 - 09:40, said:

It would have been great if the UI actually looked like that with tabs on top. Instead we're going to get that ****ty IE7+ UI again.

How do you even know? If all they were going to do was just use a tweaked IE7/8 UI like we have now then why even hide it from us at all? I think the fact we're only seeing a basic box at this point and no UI is because they're going to redo it all over.

I like IE8 with the fav bar btw. I have all my RSS feeds placed up there so I can quickly see a list of new things without having to open a new tab/window unless I want to. No other browser handles feeds this way, and I like it alot.

[rfirth]

rfirth, on 02 April 2010 - 06:20, said:

That's actually exactly what I'm going to do

My version doesn't look very good, nor does it look like the screenshots exactly. But it works, including all the buttons, and it was written in real code using WPF. Also didn't take very long. But I'm not very sure where I would put tabs.

[Fluxii Media]

Tabs on the bottom?