Flash is dying, we all know that, even Adobe admitted it, but it still has some new platforms to operate on before it kicks the bucket. One of them is Windows 8 and already there are problems with the implementation of Flash. For example, Windows 8’s Metro-style Internet Explorer doesn’t support browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, to there must be a trick to get it to work.
Well, Microsoft recently revealed that developers can prompt users to switch to the classic Internet Explorer 10 in order to use plug-ins. Web developers who need plug-ins may use a HTTP header or meta tag to prompt the Metro-like IE experience. This means that users will have the option of switching into IE 10 desktop version ASAP. Microsoft says they made this decision as a “last resort” when no plug-in free fallback content is available.
Most of developers who can’t take advantage of HTML5 will create a Metro UI app to extend the features of their software in Windows 8. In the meantime Microsoft wants us all to migrate to a plug-in free web, that benefits both consumers and developers. We all know what a pain browsers and plug-ins can get, especially if errors appear and resources are used at random. Firefox does that all the time and Chrome has some nasty plugins of its own…
