Re:Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview
by qxcbr on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:14PM
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There's a big difference between writing their own engine from scratch and forking Blink. For starters, even if they fork, they can still keep cherry-picking fixes and new features from Google's Blink. After all Webkit is under the GPL so they can't just close the source.
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Re:Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview
by anoncake on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:25PM
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> There's a big difference between writing their own engine from scratch
That's a strawman. Microsoft already had a browser engine, no one's talking about writing one from scratch. They are unable to maintain one.
> For starters, even if they fork, they can still keep cherry-picking fixes and new features from Google's Blink.
Yes. All of them. Because otherwise they aren't compatible with the Google-controlled web anymore. That kind of "fork" is pointless.
Re:Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview
by underwater on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:00PM
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They were able to maintain and extend it. But they were starting from way behind while Google was rapidly adding new features.
Microsoft had to choose between adding their own enhancements and standards (the reason for having an engine into the first place) and playing catch up to Google. With Blink they can have both.