Windows 8.1 has new features for pinned sites which are added to the startscreen tiles:

msapplication-config:

Identifies an XMLfile (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn320426%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) that contains browser configuration schema that defines live tile customizations.
<meta name="msapplication-config" content=" http://contoso.com/browserconfig.xml"/>

msapplication-notification:

Identifies up to five URLs to periodically poll for notifications. (RSS feeds)
<meta name="msapplication-notification" content="frequency=60;polling-uri=http://example.com/livetile">

msapplication-square150x150logo:

Specifies the image to use as the medium tile, which is 150x150 pixels at 100% scaling.
<meta name="msapplication-square150x150logo" content="images/logo.png">

msapplication-square310x310logo:

Specifies the image to use as the large tile, which is 310x310 pixels at 100% scaling.
<meta name="msapplication-square310x310logo" content="images/largelogo.png">

msapplication-square70x70logo:

Specifies the image to use as the small tile, which is 70x70 pixels at 100% scaling.
<meta name="msapplication-square70x70logo" content="images/tinylogo.png">

msapplication-wide310x150logo:

Specifies the image to use as the wide tile, which is 310x150 pixels at 100% scaling.
<meta name="msapplication-wide310x150logo" content="images/widelogo.png">

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn255024(v=vs.85).aspx

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Konstantin Komelin’s picture

Konstantin Komelin commented
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Cool. Thanks for the information!

And what is your issue?

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trkest commented

I think this is a feature request to include windows site tiles into this module

more info:http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/

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Konstantin Komelin commented
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Thanks @trkest. As for me it looked like JFYI note.

Honestly I'm not a big fan of IE and moreover I don't have Win 8.
So if you guys need this feature go ahead and provide patch or whatever.

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bkonetzny commented

I updated the description to only include the new Windows 8.1 / IE11 features.

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Konstantin Komelin commented
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@bkonetzny are these features replacement for #2057513: Add Windows 8 site tile features? If so, would it be wise to ignore older version of tags introduced in #2057513: Add Windows 8 site tile features ?
I'm not very familiar with the new API so please help me to understand.

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bkonetzny commented

Hi Konstantin,

I seperated these issues as they describe different featuresets for different Windows versions. The new tags for Windows 8 from #2057513: Add Windows 8 site tile features are still valid for Windows 8.1, tags in this issue here are new tags which only work in this version of the OS. The TileImage metatag from Windows 8 seems to be replaced be the more granular tags in Windows 8.1, however if newer tags are missing, TileImage will still be used in Windows 8.1, so these issues supplement each other.

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Konstantin Komelin commented
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Thanks for the explanation! I see now.
Let's start from #2057495: Add support of IE10 and above, then #2057513: Add Windows 8 site tile features, then #2029549: Add Windows 8.1 site tile features.
Does it work for you?

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bkonetzny commented

Correct, #2057495: Add support of IE10 and above is needed, otherwise Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 features can't be implemented. I'll provide some patches later when im home again :)

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Konstantin Komelin commented
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bkonetzny, are you going to continue?

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bkonetzny commented

Hi konstantin,

I'll continue with this issue after finishing #2057513: Add Windows 8 site tile features, hopefully this weekend.
At the moment, I have trouble with my testing environment on Win8. :/

Regards
Bastian

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Konstantin Komelin commented
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Okay, thanks.

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Updated issue description to be more clear about Windows 8.1 features.

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bkonetzny commented

Seems harder than I thought. The msapplication-notification expects a special format which is not RSS, there might be a webservice for converting this. Additinally, we have many more image variants now, so I'd like to simplify the upload for this.

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Konstantin Komelin commented

It's up to you. I prefer to start from MVP (minimum viable product) and then extend it if it's necessary (popular).

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damienmckenna
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commented

You might like to add these as hooks for Metatag? Alternatively if someone put together a small submodule for them I'd be happy to include it in the next release of Metatag.

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Konstantin Komelin commented

Thanks @DamienMcKenna for the good suggestion! @bkonetzny is currently working on this part. Let's ask him what he thinks.

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bkonetzny commented

I already thought about this, but I'm not sure how to handle all the image uploading functionality in this case. I think a 2.x rewrite should be based on Metatag module, but I'd like to finish this feature for the 1.x before starting the 2.x branch.

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damienmckenna
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commented

Would you also consider adding a generator for the browserconfig.xml file too?

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damienmckenna
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commented

I moved the browserconfig.xml file into a separate ticket: #2270257: Add support for the browserconfig.xml file

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bkonetzny commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Added new Windows 8.1 tags to DEV.

  • Commit be70974 on 7.x-1.x by bkonetzny: 
    Issue #2029549 by bkonetzny: Added Windows 8.1 site tile features.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.