"Mozilla has opted for the middle path through Microsoft’s guidelines for building Windows 8 apps, passing on a pure Metro app and instead making the browser a “Metro style enabled desktop browser.” That means that Firefox for Windows 8 is a hybrid app that can be run as a normal desktop application or as a Metro app."
-Scott Gilbertson Web Monkey
The middle path is what critics have been worried about the whole time, and I find it disturbing. The fact that Mozilla will try to have one app that attempts to marry such disparate UI schemes sounds like a disaster. If all app makers are planning to take this approach, I foresee catastrophe.
I knew Windows 8 would provide both Desktop and Touch support, but I did not know the apps could do the same. If I were Microsoft I would force apps to be one or the other, and highly incentivise them to be metro. Otherwise we are going to have a sea of confused consumers trying to understand which apps work where and why "my internet is not a touch thingy", and general mayhem.
I hope Firefox is alone in this middle path, but I get a feeling they are the beginning of a worrisome trend.
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