767560 - Provide site authors with the ability to display their site on the Desktop browser

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

In IE10 when in Metro mode, a web page can request that the user display the site on Desktop instead of Metro via a prompt.  This bug is to provide similar functionality in Firefox.

The request is initiated in one of 2 ways on IE10:
Via an HTTP header:
X-UA-Compatible: requiresActiveX=true
Via a META tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="requiresActiveX=true" />

ActiveX has nothing to do with us but providing the same option would be beneficial.

For further information see here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/22/developer-guidance-for-web-sites-with-flash-content-in-windows-8.aspx

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Attachment: What the UI looks like

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

This needs a story, needs to be converted to a story, or I think should be moved to v2 triage. Maybe there was a discussion about it recently given the somewhat recent activity.

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

crap sorry I thought this was blocking v1 :|

Comment 4

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Removing 'uiwanted' keyword as UX dependency bug has been created which blocks bug 767560.