The world would have been a better place if Microsoft's latest move was to adopt Firefox instead of Webkit - it would have encouraged diversity in the browser ecosystem.<p>Unfortunately given the history of Microsoft & Firefox this was of course impossible due to Firefox being a derivative of Mozilla/Netscape - one of the biggest battles in technology history, which Microsoft won following a savage no-holds-barred battle. There would have been alot of people very unhappy if Microsoft has adopted Firefox - such a move would have been truly ironic.
Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.<p>I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI/UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.<p>I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.
Crazy thing is my home country bank website only works with IE. The incompetent f*cks have re-done the website 3 times in the last 4 or 5 years. They still require IE.
When is IE gonna die? I'd really like to use flexbox/grid and other css/js niceties, but we still have 16% of users on IE. I know Microsoft is planning on supporting forever, but does anyone know if they are trying to move people off of it?
Silly question, but is there any sense in testing websites in new Edge in addition to Chrome? I presume, that if website works on Chrome, it will work on Edge the same. Are there any gotchas in new Edge to watch out for?
Is Microsoft Edge Legacy still being maintained? I was under the impression Edgium is the maintenance per se, and would just be deployed through Windows Update to all Edge users.<p>If we're including unmaintained Microsoft browsers there's also the old Tasman-based IE for Mac. The Expression Web product also had an independent HTML rendering engine.