Will the web turn weird when Windows 8 arrives?

[Zain Adeel]

@ Astra.Xtreme : Well. It will all depend on 3rd party App support. If. Every big software brings a very productive Metro App to Windows 8, i see no reason that people wont shift to using that instead of the desktop.

My idea is to keep the desktop for power users. Or technicians. Or designers or other such professionals.

For home use. Regular web use. I think metro can be a brilliant experience.

[remixedcat]

as long as devs make a mobile version of the site that's touch friendly, and keep the desktop sites in tact becuase there are some sites that are "touch friendly" that are wierd as hell on my desktop.... msnbc.com is one of them... HUGE text and lots of white space....

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I just hope they keep the normal version along side any touch version, I'm personally never going to have a touchscreen monitor (too uncomfortable to use), and having touch based software/web pages is just going to waste screen space.

[Dapen]

Windows 8 won't really change anything. It is already best practice to adopt a responsive web design with the current smartphones and tablets. Windows 8 will empower this.

[Calum Veteran]

I was just thinking about this but because Windows 8 is more of a touch interface, won't websites start becoming more touch friendly (because Windows 8 is probably going to take over a large chunk of market share) which would then ultimately affect non-touch users. Meaning icons might become bigger, and things will just feel out of place for the conventional keyboard mouse/trackpad user.

As the Windows 8 Metro experience has proven, an interface can be made touch-friendly but also remain friendly for hardware mouse/trackpad and keyboard users :)

[Amarok]

Astra, My guess is you're wrong. Touch screen is going to become HUGE. Laptop and desktop touch screens are going to go everywhere once there's an OS worth using them.

Amongst the people that thought iPads would completely replace laptops, probably. For normal users, not so much. Or at least not yet. A lot depends on the support it gets, and I don't have that much faith in the industry to do anything non-gimmicky. I think in it's upcoming incarnation it'll be more like 3D Monitors, a fad at best. I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.

[remixedcat]

I'd like to make a forum system optimized for windows 8 and metro!

I wonder if there are any mods for IPB that would make it like that.

[Dusco25]

I hope that Windows 8 flops and costs MS millions.. It looks and feels horrible.

[deleted_acc]

well i do hope so it will boosts today's trends... i like spacey and minimalistic websites much more (on desktop, mobile or tablet whatever) like the clotted nightmares of the last decade with idiotic multiple-level dropdown menus and crappy design - now websites actually PROFIT from being clean and transparent, because it's all part of the "touch friendly" user experience

[remixedcat]

imagine a forum where you're a mod and you can flick a certain way to delete threads LOL. and manage the whole forum structure with guestures and dragging an dropping where things go! same with editing users and stuff it would be fun to use a forum like this on a tablet!

[Nashy]

Websites were already heading more touch friendly before we saw how big Metro really was to Microsoft. They look clean, the function well, and are a breeze to navigate.

[remixedcat]

me wonders if the IPB people ever come to this site.....

[BeerFan]

I hope that Windows 8 flops and costs MS millions.. It looks and feels horrible.

Do people not understand the difference between a Developer Preview and a Consumer Preview? As far as developers are concerned, there is no point in including any kind of "look and feel" enhancements. Wait for the Consumer Preview before judging the aesthetic side of things. (Y)