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Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge

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Re: Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge

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Will we have to do this from now on?

no, because there are no document modes, and therefore no x-ua-compat modes

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Re: Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't find the fact a brand new browser already supports legacy 'webkit-' prefixes a fun fact...

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.

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