{"id":11790,"date":"2011-09-16T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:51:41","slug":"windows-8-metro-ui-internet-explorer-10-is-plugin-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11790","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Metro UI Internet Explorer 10 is Plugin Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2393055,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> this week at Build Windows that IE10 in the Windows 8 Metro UI would not support any plugins.&#160; The goal is to eliminate common performance and security flaws, e.g. Adobe Flash in being increasingly viewed (at least by me) as a vulnerable attack vector that doesn\u2019t get updated quite as well as it should.&#160; This ban effects Flash, ActiveX, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Note: IE10 via the desktop does still support plugins.<\/p>\n<p>I paid little attention to this story until last night when a couple of developers I was spending time with expressed how they felt.&#160; They were not happy; not one little bit.&#160; One of them had made great investment in a SaaS cloud product that was based on one or more plugins.&#160; Their work, if nothing changes with IE10 for Metro, will have been for naught because they will have to convert everything to HTML5.&#160; I don\u2019t know what the toolset is like so I am not sure about how easy\/difficult such a porting operation would be.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was lucky to sit down for breakfast with two other developers who I had met the previous morning at breakfast.&#160; I asked them what they thought.&#160; Firstly, they hadn\u2019t heard the news.&#160; They made some very interesting points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple users have lived without Flash and other plugins for years.&#160; OK, Apple users are a little different because they \u201cdo what they have done told by the turtle-necked one\u201d, and they are used to not having access to all of the possibilities we PC users have had for 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>Developers and users might not have such a bad reaction if they are educated about they why\u2019s and how\u2019s of plugin removal.&#160; Yes, there will be a vocal minority, but Microsoft has to have the toolset and education available to win them back.<\/li>\n<li>A critical plugin is ActiveX.&#160; It apparently will not be compiled for ARM.&#160; The same is probably true of lots of other plugins that are used in personal and commercial apps.&#160; If true application universality across x86, x64, and ARM is to happen then there has to be a common denominator.&#160; That is HTML5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure this one will boil up slowly over the coming 6-12 months.&#160; Maybe when launch happens, Metro UI will be ignored because of this, and users will focus on IE10 for the desktop.&#160; Maybe legacy business apps that use God-knows-what will be an issue \u2013 let\u2019s remember that IE6 is still widely used on XP because of them!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:97157de6-9039-465d-8d54-339c12c0a3d8\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Internet+Explorer\" rel=\"tag\">Internet Explorer<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced this week at Build Windows that IE10 in the Windows 8 Metro UI would not support any plugins.&#160; The goal is to eliminate common performance and security flaws, e.g. Adobe Flash in being increasingly viewed (at least by me) as a vulnerable attack vector that doesn\u2019t get updated quite as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8 Metro UI Internet Explorer 10 is Plugin Free Zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[70,109],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-internet-explorer","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}