Re:Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
by frik on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:50PM
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IE11 trident rendering engine was already renamed to "Edge", press F12 check it out (then see in the bottom bar -> top right). The step from IE11 to IE12 aka Edge from the render engine is not as huge an outside might think (reading only the PR) - it's still a great step forward so don't get me wrong. The GUI window app has been completely scrapped in favor of a WinRuntime app "Edge" instead of the old iexplore.exe that code can be traced back to at least Internet Explorer 3 (and maybe even IE 1).
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Re:Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
by hirsin on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:26PM
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Partially correct. EdgeHTML was in IE11, but wasn't a renamed MSHTML (check your system32, you'll see both DLLs in Win10). It's a departure from MSHTML that's been seriously changed, lots of cruft removed and a lot of interop added.
Fun anecdote - last week someone at Steam wrote one of the sale pages using entirely -webkit- prefixes. It showed up blank in Forefox, but rendered fine in Spartan and Chrome.
Re:Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
by Offler on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:05PM
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I don't find the fact a brand new browser already supports legacy 'webkit-' prefixes a fun fact...
Re:Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
by hirsin on Thursday April 30, 2015 @08:19PM
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In truth, neither do I. But Edge/Spartan follows the developers, and sometimes that involves being interoperable with poorly designed sites that have fallen prey to browser-specific prefixes.
From a business sense, it works because if it works in Chrome and fails in Spartan, it's our fault. From a user experience sense, it also works because they deserve to have their sites work.