The issue when building for Win8 is that you have to think about all the possible forms of input. The guidelines are actually pretty good (sorry Greg, you indicated that you thought it's more confusing now, I completely disagree as the metro guidelines are very strong) but it's easy to overlook mouse, keyboard, touch, scroll etc. Suspect that might have been the case with the news reader...
Personally I wasn't a big fan of the move to horizontal scrolling to start with - we've all been so conditioned to scanning lists vertically it's a bit of a mind shift to work horizontally. I do understand the change and actually think it makes for better touch-first apps. As has been pointed out already, this doesn't always mean that they're optimised for those of us who are desk bound. Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Built to Roam Pty Ltd does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Built to Roam Pty Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:19 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Win8 Release Preview So vertical wheel scrolls horizontally ? I wondered what the design was for the news reader app which is a pain to scroll on my laptop. Admittedly I'm using VMWare to run it so the touchpad experience is not good. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nick Randolph |Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:10 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Win8 Release Preview | |You know that the mouse wheel will scroll horizontally on the start |screen, right? | |Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone |Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam The information contained in |this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you |may not disclose |or use the information in this email in any way. Built to Roam Pty Ltd |does not |guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions |expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or |opinions of Built |to Roam Pty Ltd. | | |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy |Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:03 AM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Win8 Release Preview | |Well worse. Popups area lot more keyboard/mouse friendly than having to |horizontally scroll | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- ||boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk ||Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:58 AM ||To: ozDotNet ||Subject: Re: Win8 Release Preview || ||Exactly. It hasn't fixed the problem of manual navigation, just ||changed it. |But in ||the process made it more tablet/phone friendly. || || ||On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Bill McCarthy |<bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> ||wrote: || || || And that as said previously is the same in windows 7. So the notion |that ||the || new start menu addresses the problem with too many entries on the |old ||start || menu is false. || || |
