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laumars 8y ago
...and that's like slapping a custom badge on a Ford Fiesta and calling it a Ferrari. You're other points are much more interesting though. One of my biggest gripes with the other leading browsers is they often feel "foreign" on your host OS (which isn't Windows in my case, but that is just personal preference).
- piva00 8y ago
  No, it's like slapping a custom badge over a Ford Fiesta platform's B3, re-do completely the interior, add some smart features around it. Hell, even do some kind of smart auto-assist while you are on it. You keep the engine and the architecture around it but add your own luxuries and niceties.
- NiveaGeForce 8y ago
  The only thing that matters is that it integrates well and is efficient on the host OS, and that it can sync settings, bookmarks, reading list and stuff between your devices. Edge on iOS and Android will have a built-in adblocker soon.
  - laumars 8y ago
    > The only thing that matters is that it integrates well and is efficient on the host OS, and that it can sync settings, bookmarks, reading list and stuff between your devices. In fairness, bar the "integrates well" point, any modern browser will do what you've described (where "efficient" can be used to described a number of different performance related matrix).
  - andybak 8y ago
    > The only thing that matters Well - for some of us it matters that the rendering engine behaviour and performance characteristics are the same.
    - NiveaGeForce 8y ago
      Which are the same as the defaults of the host OS. So there is nothing to make a fuss about.
    - jug 8y ago
      That's true, and for others it matters that regardless web browser used on iOS, all you need to care for as a developer is that the user is on iOS.
  - bitmapbrother 8y ago
    >Edge on iOS and Android will have a built-in adblocker soon. You mean the same AdBlock Plus that allows selected ads to bypass it so long as you paid them?
MaxBarraclough 8y ago
And that changes the game a great deal. The innards of the browser matter. For instance, on Windows, I usually use Firefox, but I use Edge to view Netflix, as (for whatever reason) Netflix supports Edge's EME pipeline better than the other Windows browsers. That's specific to the browser's innards, not to its skin. Incidentally, the DefectiveByDesign guys aren't happy about the situation - https://www.defectivebydesign.org/edge-netflix-eme https://www.defectivebydesign.org/edge-netflix-eme

And?

...and that's like slapping a custom badge on a Ford Fiesta and calling it a Ferrari. You're other points are much more interesting though. One of my biggest gripes with the other leading browsers is they often feel "foreign" on your host OS (which isn't Windows in my case, but that is just personal preference).

piva00 8y ago
No, it's like slapping a custom badge over a Ford Fiesta platform's B3, re-do completely the interior, add some smart features around it. Hell, even do some kind of smart auto-assist while you are on it. You keep the engine and the architecture around it but add your own luxuries and niceties.
NiveaGeForce 8y ago
The only thing that matters is that it integrates well and is efficient on the host OS, and that it can sync settings, bookmarks, reading list and stuff between your devices. Edge on iOS and Android will have a built-in adblocker soon.
- laumars 8y ago
  > The only thing that matters is that it integrates well and is efficient on the host OS, and that it can sync settings, bookmarks, reading list and stuff between your devices. In fairness, bar the "integrates well" point, any modern browser will do what you've described (where "efficient" can be used to described a number of different performance related matrix).
- andybak 8y ago
  > The only thing that matters Well - for some of us it matters that the rendering engine behaviour and performance characteristics are the same.
  - NiveaGeForce 8y ago
    Which are the same as the defaults of the host OS. So there is nothing to make a fuss about.
  - jug 8y ago
    That's true, and for others it matters that regardless web browser used on iOS, all you need to care for as a developer is that the user is on iOS.
- bitmapbrother 8y ago
  >Edge on iOS and Android will have a built-in adblocker soon. You mean the same AdBlock Plus that allows selected ads to bypass it so long as you paid them?

MaxBarraclough 8y ago

And that changes the game a great deal. The innards of the browser matter. For instance, on Windows, I usually use Firefox, but I use Edge to view Netflix, as (for whatever reason) Netflix supports Edge's EME pipeline better than the other Windows browsers. That's specific to the browser's innards, not to its skin. Incidentally, the DefectiveByDesign guys aren't happy about the situation - https://www.defectivebydesign.org/edge-netflix-eme https://www.defectivebydesign.org/edge-netflix-eme