As Windows 8 Consumer Preview is being here for so long time but companies have started deploying their apps for Windows 8. So, why the Firefox will stay back in this series. According to one the Firefox developer Brain R. Bondy's blog Firefox has already started building Firefox browser for this new generation Operating System "Microsoft Windows 8".
So the development of Firefox for Metro UI based OS Windows 8 has been started officially from last Monday. Brain has already mentioned few of the points of the development of Firefox and what team has already done for the Windows 8 Metro. One of the major issue for the Firefox is that a browser can be only in Metro mode if it's a default browser. Which means if you are using Firefox on Windows 8 Metro then it has to be your default browser which is a decision by Microsoft.
Brian also mentioned about the programming languages and interfaces which they are using for the Metro development of Firefox. They will be using the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL) which is similar to C++ / ATL. Team's first major goal is to build an experiment version for Metro of firefox.
He added few goals which they want to tackle in this coming week:
So the development of Firefox for Metro UI based OS Windows 8 has been started officially from last Monday. Brain has already mentioned few of the points of the development of Firefox and what team has already done for the Windows 8 Metro. One of the major issue for the Firefox is that a browser can be only in Metro mode if it's a default browser. Which means if you are using Firefox on Windows 8 Metro then it has to be your default browser which is a decision by Microsoft.
Brian also mentioned about the programming languages and interfaces which they are using for the Metro development of Firefox. They will be using the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL) which is similar to C++ / ATL. Team's first major goal is to build an experiment version for Metro of firefox.
He added few goals which they want to tackle in this coming week:
- Figure out how to make our own PRI files with our own resources.
- Get a C++/XAML application working
- Get our app launching through a delegate DLL instead of an EXE
- Figure out how to interop XAML / DirectX.
- Start to figure out how we will paint content to our DirectX surface with the graphics layer
- Figure out how to implement other contracts
- Look into native theme rendering
- Probably others
So, we can see that Firefox is building the product in a very early stage which can give them a better product but the question is will Firefox be there in windows store? or still we need to get it from firefox site itslef.