Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#1

Post by __michaelg » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:38 PM UTC

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#2

Post by epx » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:48 PM UTC

IE deserves to die. It was responsible by the Middle Ages of Internet in the 2000s. Many corp systems still work solely on IE8 or IE6.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#3

Post by taeric » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

I'll confess that hearing MS is giving up on their own browser engine is incredibly surprising to me. I also share Mozilla's concern, but I think I'm past the despair point in feeling there is anything we can do about it. If anything, I'm more convinced that the writing is on the wall for most sites supporting Firefox.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#4

Post by nightski » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

It makes me wonder if at any point in the process Microsoft approached Firefox over integrating their rendering engine vs. Chromium and if so, what the factors were in making their final decision.

I also wonder if instead of "ceding" control to Google, Microsoft intends to start being a major contributor to Chromium, so much so that it almost becomes a joint effort vs. Google dominance.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#5

Post by blattimwind » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

epx wrote: post #2

IE deserves to die. It was responsible by the Middle Ages of Internet in the 2000s. Many corp systems still work solely on IE8 or IE6.

Chrome deserves to die. It is responsible for the Second Middle Ages of Internet in the 2010s. Many webscale system still work solely on Chrome 167 or Chrome 168.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#6

Post by wila » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

epx wrote: post #2

IE deserves to die. It was responsible by the Middle Ages of Internet in the 2000s. Many corp systems still work solely on IE8 or IE6.

That might be true, but the article is about the Edge browser, not IE.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#7

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:50 PM UTC

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Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#8

Post by babuskov » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:50 PM UTC

If anyone told me a decade ago that a day will come when I will feel sorry for Microsoft browser technology going away...

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#9

Post by derefr » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:51 PM UTC

nightski wrote: post #4

It makes me wonder if at any point in the process Microsoft approached Firefox over integrating their rendering engine vs. Chromium and if so, what the factors were in making their final decision. I also wonder if instead of "ceding" control to Google, Microsoft intends to start being a major contributor to Chromium, so much so that it almost becomes a joint effort vs. Google dominance.

I'm wondering the same, and naively, it seems likely.

But on the other hand, Google forked Blink away from Webkit specifically so it wouldn't have to share control of the codebase with Apple.

Do you think Google is willing to share control over Blink with Microsoft?

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

#10

Post by tylerhou » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:51 PM UTC

epx wrote: post #2

IE deserves to die. It was responsible by the Middle Ages of Internet in the 2000s. Many corp systems still work solely on IE8 or IE6.

Edge is a completely different product based on a new rendering engine which is as spec compliant as Firefox.