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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by manigandham on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:02AM (#15836556)
Except Edge doesnt even support basic things like Server-Sent Events: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

They also haven't actually replaced IE11 which still has plenty of usage out in the wild. MS had a good start but they continue to stumble in their efforts today. Firefox has done much better with 1/1000th of the resources which should say something.

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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by skrebbel on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:17AM (#15836588)
To be fair, SSE never got much adoption to begin with. Their web socket support is top notch.
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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by manigandham on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:45AM (#15837179)
Because Edge and IE11 exist, that's why. It's a fantastic standard that would make things much easier for many real-time apps. Even the dev tools in Edge are subpar compared to Chrome and Firefox.
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Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive by skrebbel on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:58AM (#15837212)
I'm not convinced. There's not-terribly-bad polyfills for SSE that go down to IE8 or so. Admittedly they don't support all details of SSE but they support a good chunk. I've used SSE pretty extensively in a number of projects and I can't say IE/Edge is why I stopped using it. It's just.. there's better options out there :-)
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