Microsoft's new browser and the Windows 10 January preview build

Post by asyncwords » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 5:18 PM UTC

Post by jbob2000 » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

Post by cpr » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 6:05 PM UTC

asyncwords wrote: post #4

cpr wrote: post #2

It's interesting that they decided to start from scratch with a new rendering engine. (I imagine the UI itself could have been updated without a lot of trouble.) They probably looked at the thousands of special cases in the old spaghetti code, maybe took a gander at the Blink/Webkit sources ;-), and then decided, "Hang it, we can do this ourselves, and do it right." Likely a pretty fun project, betting against the "n…

Curious that they're calling it a 'new' rendering engine at all. I could have sworn they said somewhere that it was still the same Trident engine, but without the legacy IE bits. Also, according to Paul Thurrott [1], the browser team was considering WebKit/Blink and ultimately decided to stick with Trident – apparently because of Google's control over Blink. [1]: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/470/maybe-…

Post by frik » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 6:34 PM UTC

Post by kethinov » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 6:43 PM UTC