Chris_Kez
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That would be nice. On the flip side, I'd like to see the photos app support portrait view for video (ditto for other video apps). Metrotube does this with pre-loaded videos....all apps should support landscape mode...
That would be nice. On the flip side, I'd like to see the photos app support portrait view for video (ditto for other video apps). Metrotube does this with pre-loaded videos....all apps should support landscape mode...
If they made the tiles responsive, that wouldn't be an issue. That way devs wouldn't have to worry if it was wide/narrow. If it was narrow, if it has a lot of horizontal content, they would just collapse/wrap around to the next line. If it's a photo (e.g. picture hub) it would just crop the photo accordingly. If they were to do this, it would obviously mean some change to how live tiles are designed, and I think rather than creating 3 separate tiles, the responsive way would be better so it wouldn't matter how many sizes MS comes up with and allows greater flexibility.I don't think this is a good idea nor do I think they will do it this way. It will ruin the uniformity of the platform. For devs who don't make a wide tile, the app just will not allow that size. But for apps that have a wide tile but not a landscape version, well what happens in that case? Half of your tiles render with text sideways? Its not uniform, that's why Windows 8 rotation is the way it is.
Woah woah woah.... to everyone who says "this will ruin the uniformity and blah blah blah how will devs cope!?"
I said, in the first or second post of this thread no less, WINDOWS 8 ALREADY DOES THIS. The logistics are already figured out, coded, and released in products being used. Wide tiles get rotated and the tile arrangement gets shuffled around to compensate for the new vertical resolution.
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False. In Windows 8 not a single tile rotates and the content certainly does not rearrange itself. The tiles simply restack themselves into longer columns and shorter rows.
False. In Windows 8 not a single tile rotates and the content certainly does not rearrange itself. The tiles simply restack themselves into longer columns and shorter rows.
.......... The tiles rotate with the screen, otherwise double wide tiles would be vertical. For the second part, you just repeated what I said.
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I've often wondered why they didn't include this option. It seems that it would be fairly simple to just make the tiles 're-stack' using either a user-defined scheme or some kind of algorithm e.g. fill all screen space keeping vertical hierarchy as a 2nd priority... if that makes sense.
To be honest, I don't see the need for horizontal start screen.
It's not for everyone, but many people do want the choice to have it. The main reason for example is if you're watching a video or playing a game, for example, and then you go back to the start screen... why should you have to rotate your phone vertically again? Instead you should be able to stay in horizontal mode if the user wishes too. It'll also bring consistent to the platform. All the built-in apps and settings work in horizontal mode, yet the Start Screen doesn't. Very minor, but very useful to have (for those that choose to use it)
Totally agree!The Microsoft store is another app that needs to work in horizontal mode....i think the whole OS does.