What could be better than a smart, fast,
immersive browsing experience that you can use with a touch device to
tap and pinch your way across the web? If you’re a fan of the
smartphone, chances are that you’re already browsing using a touch
interface, so the Metro version of IE10 may feel very natural to you.
The Metro experience is smooth, slick, and
fast if you want to search and browse and read to your heart’s content.
But if you long for more control—and your old, familiar browser
tools—you can easily display the webpage in desktop mode by tapping or
clicking Tools in the Metro IE10 version and choosing View on the
Desktop.
>>>step-by-step: Using the Address Bar
As you type in the address bar, the navigation
tiles filter to show you sites from your history, favorites, and even
popular URLs. With Windows 8 roaming and connected accounts, your
browsing history and favorites roam with you so that you can easily
access recent webpages across all of your PCs.
1.
Click or tap in the address bar. If you’re using a touch device, the
touch keyboard appears so that you can type the new web address. If
you’re using a non-touch computer, the web address is highlighted.
2. Type
the web address of the page you want to view. Internet Explorer 10
attempts to autocomplete the phrase for you, so if you want to use the
site provided, tap or click the Go button. If not, just keep typing the
full address.
3. You can also tap or click a tile in the Frequent area to move to the page in IE10 Metro.
4. If
you’re using the desktop version, IE10 offers suggested sites in a
dropdown list when you begin to type the web address, and you can tap or
click the site you want to display.
What’s in a Name?
In the desktop
version of IE10, the address bar is known as One Box, where you now
basically use “one box” for everything, whether you want to search, get
security reports, or go directly to a web page.
Navigating the Web
You’ll probably find the browser tools
for moving from one web page to another pretty easy to use, whether
you’re working with the Metro or desktop version of IE10. Chances are
that you already know how to move forward or backward from page to page.
Whether you’re using Metro or desktop IE10, you’ll use the same tools and techniques to navigate the webpages you display:
• Back. Clicking the Back button takes you back to the page you were previously viewing.
• Forward. Clicking Forward takes you to the web page you previously viewed after
viewing the current one. This capability is helpful if you’re moving
back and forth between pages. If you haven’t moved ahead to another page
yet, this button is not active.
• Click or tap a link.
Click or tap a link on the page to move to another page or perform a
web action. What that link does—for example, whether it displays a new
page, opens a document, or plays a media clip—depends on what the
website designer programmed the link to do.
• Scroll or swipe down the page.
In the desktop version of IE10, use the vertical scrollbar as you would
in any other program to display content that is currently out of view
along the bottom of the page. On a touch device, you can swipe up to
display content that appears below the bottom margin of the window.
• Scroll or swipe across the page.
In the desktop version of IE10, use the horizontal scrollbar to scroll
across pages that are too wide to be displayed at one time on your
monitor. With Metro IE10, you can swipe to the left to show content that
is out of view to the right.
• Tap or click a tool or command.
You can carry out site operations, execute commands, and access other
areas of the site by tapping or clicking a button, command, or menu
item.
>>> Go Further: Who Says You Can’t Go Back?
