Windows 8: Web Navigation By Touch

snoopy · May 19, 2012

Windows 8: web navigation by touch
New features in Windows 8

If you've surfed the internet on a tablet or a smartphone, then you'll probably be frustrated by the desktop PC experience. Web browsing is arguably one of the activities to have benefited most from multi-touch technology. Sweeping through pages, pinching to zoom in and out, quickly accessing bookmarks and links by tap, all feel much more intuitive.

With Windows 8 Microsoft has taken the idea of touch-based browsing and built Internet Explorer 10 around it, making a browser that prioritises touch for use within the Metro interface. Of course, you can use it with a mouse too, and in the standard, more old-fashioned Windows interface, but touch is really intended to be the primary methodology. As well as catering for a more intuitive way of using the web, touch gives you fast-and-easy access to a range of tools that can make browsing more productive. So, lets jump right in and explain what that means in the real world.

Windows 8: Getting started

When you first open the web browser there's a navigation bar along the bottom. This offers some basic tools for getting around such as reloading or revisiting a web page, the ability to search for a term or complete URL, and the option to pin a page to the Start screen. Whenever you choose to pin a page to the start screen a small box will appear. Type in a reference name for the web page that means something to you, hit ‘Pin to Start' and your web page is on the Start Screen.
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More plus screenshots - http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/features/windows/3358579/windows-8-web-navigation-by-touch/?cmpid=HTML-DN180512&olo=daily%20news

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