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Re:Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHT... by wernsey on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:17AM (#17363388)
My manager insists on using Edge because "it is the default browser on Windows so everybody uses it".

I'm working on an in-house Angular application, and he has discovered a lot of compatibility issues that none of our other users have.

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Re:Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHT... by laumars on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:30AM (#17363435)
...or possibly other users have discovered but not bothered to report it?

Your manager is doing the right thing here - even if you don't agree with his rational. If you don't control the browsers your customers* use then you should be testing your application on as many unique platforms as you can. That is essentially UAT 101.

* "customers" might be external to the company, or your own staff if you're developing an intranet application.

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Re:Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHT... by wernsey on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:48AM (#17364191)
To clarify, he's the only one that uses Edge in our company of about 20 people.

I do appreciate him finding the compatibility issues, but I also find it _cute_ when he discovered issues that no one else ever encountered because of Edge.

What I'm really trying to say is that I've seen a fair number edge cases where Edge is not behaving the same as Chrome or Firefox ;)

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