Get Windows 8 Metro style start screen in Firefox, Internet Explorer

[javajolt]

We have seen the new UI for Windows 8 tablets earlier at D9 and Computex 2011. Some guys at Deviantart are busy replicating Windows 8 Metro style for Windows 7. DA user flatmo1 has created a start page for browser inspired by Windows 8.The start page is created using HTML + CSS + jQuery and is highly customizable. You can easily edit the links by just modifying the XML files.



You can download the file from here.

Here are the instructions-
 
  1. Extract the zip file anywhere in your hard disk.

  2. Place images of thumbnails to ‘thumbs’ folder. Maximal dimensions of thumbnails should be set according to ‘sketch.jpg’. For best look use clear white images with alpha transparency.

  3. Edit bookmarks parameters in ‘source.xml’. Numbering of bookmarks you can find in ‘sketch.jpg’.

  4. Set ‘index.htm’ as your stat page in Firefox.

[littlemax9]

great i'm using it right now !!

 .....here, I found this on DeviantART, put the following code lines in the file style.css in the lib folder and you'll have some effects

a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}

a {
box-shadow: none;
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.5s linear;
}

a:hover {
box-shadow: inset 0 0 18px #260930;
-webkit-transition: all .3s ease-out;
-moz-transition: all .3s ease-out;
-o-transition: all .3s ease-out;
}

button {
cursor: pointer;
}

[littlemax9]

  Winows 8 now with animation buttons

[javajolt]

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