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Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by wayneftw »

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3.

I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS Code, is a free and open source Microsoft product. It's also the product that really enabled me to make the switch in comfort. Maybe soon though I'll be using Bing more too (among others like DDG) if Google decides to completely remove URLs from search result links.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#52

Post by Osiris »

wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

I use Vivaldi on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's the most customizable browser I've used since Opera 12 (which makes sense, since one of the Opera founders started Vivaldi).

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#53

Post by reichardt »

wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

I believe Edge is based on Chromium not WebKit?

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#54

Post by zethraeus »

kick wrote: post #40
oldmanhorton wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The name isn't going, but we also are replacing much more than just edgehtml. The new version of edge shares very little code with the old version of edge

Is there any reason Microsoft isn't open sourcing EdgeHTML?

i've heard it's strongly coupled to windows' underlying rendering.

also, probably lack of value to microsoft.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#55

Post by zapzupnz »

wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

Edge is based on Blink, not WebKit. Remember that Blink was forked from WebKit six years ago. In web time, that might as well be a century, given the leaps that have been made in web tech in browsers.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#56

Post by jdnenej »

reichardt wrote: post #53
wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

I believe Edge is based on Chromium not WebKit?

Chromium uses blink which was forked from WebKit long ago.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by jdnenej »

zethraeus wrote: post #54
kick wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any reason Microsoft isn't open sourcing EdgeHTML?

i've heard it's strongly coupled to windows' underlying rendering. also, probably lack of value to microsoft.

It was probably based on IE which was and maybe still is used to render help pages on windows and probably other things.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by saber1 »

wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

The new Edge is based on Chromium (Uses Blink as the engine), so I don't think it will challenge Google on things like Manifest v3.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

#60

Post by sys_64738 »

seemsridiculous wrote: post #4

I just see ansolutely no reason why I would use microsoft edge

It'll on the default install of Windows 10 once 1.0 is formally released. When people realize it's Microsoft Chrome then they'll ditch Google's version of Chrome. It's actually a pretty smart move by MS as they'll quickly become the dominant browser again.
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