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    News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Microsoft opts against plug-ins when using its latest browser in Metro mode.
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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Didn't they talk about this months ago?

    Is it news again, have they clarified or changed something?
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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    I'd prefer it if they disabled it by default but had an option to enable them in settings (with a security/battery life disclaimer if appropriate).

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Microsoft you are not apple, you cant get away with telling people what they need. This will render the metro interface pretty much useless for a lot of users.... until Mozilla/Chrome works with it.


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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    I'd prefer it if they disabled it by default but had an option to enable them in settings (with a security/battery life disclaimer if appropriate).
    +1 I'm totally in favour of good default settings that are best for the IT illiterate so they can just get on with it, but the settings need a nice "Advanced" menu to change them, locked down inflexible systems are a step backwards not a-good-thing.

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Bad news for ARM!

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle View Post
    +1 I'm totally in favour of good default settings that are best for the IT illiterate so they can just get on with it, but the settings need a nice "Advanced" menu to change them, locked down inflexible systems are a step backwards not a-good-thing.
    One of the things that will worry me about this whole batterylife thing, HTML5 javascript.

    When on my P series, which has tiny processor power and such, I always browse with flash block on and no script.

    As more people ditch flash and have html5 adverts, I'm sure this will cain the battery just as much as browsing with flash on currently does.

    No plugins will mean no ability to have a script blocking plugin....
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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    PDF viewing could be the most annoying in the long run. So I hope they have a PDF viewer in-built. How are the cooks of the house going to cope when they buy a PDF cook book and wish to use the Metro Interface.

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Plenty of people (myself included) don't actually have a PDF reader enabled via ActiveX because of legacy security risks when running on XP.

    After disabiling it, its never missed. I want to read a PDF, odds are having it outside of the browser isn't going to be any inconvience.

    I'd hazard a guess that PDF handling will be the same it is on WinPho 7, that is you open it, it transitions to Adobe Reader.
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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    One of the things that will worry me about this whole batterylife thing, HTML5 javascript. When on my P series, which has tiny processor power and such, I always browse with flash block on and no script. As more people ditch flash and have html5 adverts, I'm sure this will cain the battery just as much as browsing with flash on currently does. No plugins will mean no ability to have a script blocking plugin....
    Good point - then again, is IE8/IE9 blessed with noscript/abp type scripts?

    I'm not too worried about IE10's capabilities because if/when I do go Windows8 I'll do the same as Windows7 and use Firefox/Chrome as my browser of preference. IE's too slow and limited for my purposes these days.

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Didn't they talk about this months ago?

    Is it news again, have they clarified or changed something?
    The news was based on this blog post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2...-free-web.aspx

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    Microsoft you are not apple, you cant get away with telling people what they need.
    Haha, funny because it's true.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    No plugins will mean no ability to have a script blocking plugin....
    Not a big problem, just use a local proxy that rewrites html
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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Plugins are what makes Firefox and Chrome usable. MS need to admit the problem is ActiveX, not the plugin model.

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    Re: News - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 will not feature plug-ins in Metro

    Quote Originally Posted by robertirwin View Post
    Plugins are what makes Firefox and Chrome usable. MS need to admit the problem is ActiveX, not the plugin model.
    Its really not!

    One of the cunning ideas they had with ie9 was to let people see what plugins they had. On my dad's computer it was spending 2.3seconds, thats longer than the rest of the browser opening, to load HP's web print something stupid no one actually uses. There were about 4 others there too.

    Kill it, kill them all.
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