Re:Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
by cozuya on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:08PM
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LocalForage sounds like a startup for Portland millennials.
Re:Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
by justwannasing on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:40PM
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HTML5test is OK but caniuse.com shows more but people will complain about every browser test site since I started doing web dev 11 years ago.
Here's the thing. Edge is IE without the legacy baggage and that's all it is. No different. It's still behind every other browser in its ability to comply with standards and APIs. Despite Microsoft's claim that it will be an "evergreen" browser, that it will update more often, we have not seen this so the proof needs to be done.
Re:Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
by jongalloway2 on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @07:42PM
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I prefer caniuse.com too.
The bit about Edge just being IE without the legacy baggage is incorrect. You can see the new standards and APIs they've either added or are adding here: http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/?filter=f06000000
The thing I'm happiest about is the user-agent change so poorly written JavaScript / CSS that was written for webkit instead of standards will now magically start working.
Re:Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
by justwannasing on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @10:07PM
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The new standards and API support are the same that would have been added to IE12. It doesn't matter that Edge came along.
HTML5Test lists iOS 8 as having IndexedDB support but it's so broken it's unusable on that platform. Even Mozilla completely disabled it in their LocalForage library due to it's issues.