This is an article from 2017 and seems to primarily target the "old" Edge.<p>Later Microsoft moved to using Edge based on Chromium.<p>(Previous discussion <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149647" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149647</a> )
(2017)<p>And then Microsoft gave up on developing their own browser engine and switched to Chromium.<p>And then there were only two competitors to Google's increasing subsuming of the Web.
Before reading -<p>Wait, how they are going to modernise something that is working well?<p>What do they mean by modernise?<p>Is the modernise technique really better ?<p>First read - There is really no modernisation done and no improvements at all until I saw the chart.<p>Second read - Very carefully trying to understand and found that they removed legacy technique to access a node and replaced it with a node with four pointers - parent, first-child, next, and previous sibling.<p>Its a neat work because trying to migrate a older technique to newer ones will require deeper knowledge !