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  1. Windows 8 is NOT browser-based by spage · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Blocks 3d-Party Browsers In Windows RT, Says Mozilla Counsel

    Microsoft, like every hopeful in the tablet space and many other desktop environments, is encouraging developers to write apps using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. That does not make Windows 8 a browser-based O.S. like ChromeOS, you don't know what you're talking about. There's still a distinct I.E. browser app that you start from Metro. What you say is as ridiculous as claiming you it makes no sense to run other browsers in Gnome 3, or Plasma Active, or any other desktop that's allowing or encouraging JavaScript widgets and extensions.

    Mozilla already has preliminary builds of Firefox running as a Windows 8 Metro application, you can follow along with the developers as they integrate it with Windows 8 Metro's tiles and charm/contracts for sharing and searching. The issue is

    However, Windows on ARM prohibits any browser except for Internet Explorer from running in the privileged “Windows Classic” environment. In practice, this means that only Internet Explorer will be able to perform many of the advanced computing functions vital to modern browsers in terms of speed, stability, and security to which users have grown accustomed

  2. Re:"Designers" are ruining UIs all over the place. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop

    Ditto, and Mozilla is already working on Firefox for Metro

  3. Not a big change in development stack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Google's First Employee Departs

    The code for Khan Academy uses Google Code and runs on Google App Engine so he should at least have a passing familiarly with the technology stack that his new company uses :-)

    Source: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/109/