2012-08-06, 20:33 | Link #186 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Its more the case Microsoft would have to rewrite IE from scratch because it is a tentacle monster of proprietary Microsoft libraries, Windows-specific OS calls and more plumber's nightmare coding than you can shake a stick at.
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2012-08-06, 22:59 | Link #187 | |
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Also, it seems like phone OS's are treated differently. MS seems to be getting away with Win 8 ARM being IE only. |
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2012-08-07, 00:32 | Link #188 | |
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In addition, Microsoft is hoping to regain some share in the mobile market though phones from its partner Nokia that run Windows 8. Creating a version of IE that runs on Android would undermine that strategy.
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2012-08-08, 05:51 | Link #189 |
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There are literally tons of browsers for Android, but most people tend to stick with the stock browser or some other Webkit browser because web designers are lazy and shiftless and make their mobile sites frequently use Webkit extensions that don't work in any other HTML renderer.
If you want an example of this, download Opera Mobile onto your Android device and try to view a mobile site on it. It'll usually look like it came from 2005 on a Blackberry--because Opera doesn't use Webkit and the user agent string tells the website so, it'll send the craptastic mobile site to your device instead of the good, shiny mobile site.
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2012-08-10, 18:30 | Link #190 | |
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2012-08-10, 19:18 | Link #191 | |
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2012-08-10, 21:47 | Link #194 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Now there's an example of a slow motion software package trainwreck, choosing library calls poorly and depending on an evolving system governed by people who don't care about some company's POS software.
(and that doesn't mean point-of-sale in this case)
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2012-08-11, 17:12 | Link #197 |
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While I generally like Windows 8, my workplace uses hidden SSIDs for their network (yes, yes, I know it's stupid, but I'm in no way associated with our IT department), and Windows 8's inability to connect to a hidden SSID, even when you tell it to connect to a network that isn't broadcasting, means it is likely I won't be upgrading any time soon on any device I bring to work.
Apparently, the only way for it work is if you unhide the SSID, connect, then hide it again, after which Windows 8 can connect again to the hidden SSID in the future. Let's just say that I'm not going to get any headway telling our rather large IT department to unhide the SSID just so I can connect a Windows 8 machine. I chalked it up to the Consumer and Release Previews being just that, Previews, but apparently it's still a 'feature' in the RTM.
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2012-08-11, 17:22 | Link #199 | |
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1) They really did remove the ability to connect to a hidden SSID, but never got around to changing the GUI to reflect this... or the more likely possibility 2) It's bugged, and so far down their priority list that any fix for it still hasn't made it to the 'finished' product, and it will be fixed in a future patch. I have no broad overview of what percent of wireless users connect to hidden SSIDs, so I have no idea how big of an issue it is in the broad scope of every windows user in the world. All I know is my work does, so this is rather inconvenient for me. The rather small amount of google search results on this issue would seem to indicate though that hidden SSIDs are a very small minority, so I am thinking #2 is likely the culprit.
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